Re: New Package: defrag 0.6-1
On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, David Engel wrote:
david >Christoph Lameter writes:
david >> Package: defrag
david >> Architecture: i386
david >> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
david >> Description: defragmenter for ext2 minix xiafs file systems
david >> As a file system is used, data tends to become more and more scattered
david >> over the disk, degrading performance. A disk defragmenter simply
david >> reorganises the data on the disk, so that individual files occupy a
david >> single sequential set of disk blocks, and all the free space on the
david >> disk is collected together in a single region. This generally means
david >> that reading a whole file is more efficient.
david >
david >Defrag-0.6 is over two years old! Are you sure it's still safe to use
david >on current ext2 file systems?
I think defrag is an essential tool although there are grounds for concern
since it does not compile under 2.0.24. Somebody recently uploaded a
compiled version to sunsite and seems to have had success using it. The
defrag package I submitted are the binaries of his compile.
Is there any section for packages that have one or the other strange
characteristic?
Here is his readme:
This a compiled version of defrag-0.6.............
CAUTION Will Robinson DANGER...DANGER...
These should be ELF binaries... It was compiled under Linux 1.2.13 with
GCC 2.7.0. and libc.so.5.0.9. This is the only know version of Linux
that I know of that compiles cleanly. It works on my Linux box with
versions 1.2.13 thru 2.0.24 as of 10/30/96.
To install defrag-0.6 on you linux system:
Installation is done by running "make install" ONLY...
Everything else will recompile the programs.
Don't bother to email me if there are problems with something you did.
hedrick@astro.dyer.vanderbilt.edu
Andre Hedrick
Dyer Observatory, Vanderbilt University
NEITHER Vanderbilt University or myself (Andre Hedrick) are responsible
for the missuse of this package.
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