Re: defrag

[" Raymond A. Ingles" <inglesra@frc.com>]

On Mon, 10 May 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote:

> I installed the defrag package and read the man pages.  I'm not sure
> how to use this since my only filesystem is (usually) mounted, and
> anyway the defrag executable is on that filesystem!  I suppose I can
> copy the executable to a floppy, go to single user mode and then
> unmount the filesystem and run the executable from the floppy to defrag
> my disk?

 I'd suggest just backing up and restoring. This defragments just as well,
with much less risk of data loss...

> Anyway I tried (as root) to run defrag in test mode
> (e2defrag -r /dev/hda3) and got an error message {"can't seek to end of
> file system").  What does this mean?

 You could try installing it on the Debian rescue floppy and running it
from there... but backing up is safer.

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles          (248) 377-7735         ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com

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