Re: defrag program
Defrag 0.61 is part of the debian distribution unless something has
changed recently. It has been updated recently.
On 22 Mar 1997 bruce@debian.novare.net wrote:
> From: Peter Iannarelli <peter@pisys.com>
> > Why is the defrag package not part of the debian distribution?
>
> I think it was part of the distribution but it was not being kept in sync
> with the filesystem implementation in the kernel and thus was dropped. If
> someone's been taking care of it enough that it's been tracking all of the
> recent changes in ext2fs, then it's OK to package. But:
>
> 1. Put big red warning flags all over it that people should back up their
> partitions before they use it.
>
> 2. Test it extensively.
>
> 3. Cross your fingers.
>
> That is one dangerous program. It's possible that it should go in the
> "contrib" directory if we're not 100% sure of it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bruce
>
>
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