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Re: How do you e2defrag?



Ben Pfaff writes:

>    I have debian installed on a single partition, a partition which
>    I suspect is greatly fragmented (is there an easy way to tell?).  I wish
>    to use the program e2defrag to defragment it, but have realized this could
>    be more difficult than I first thought.

> You say you have a single partition, but it's possible you're
> forgetting a swap partition.  If you do have a (large-enough) swap
> partition, then you can install Linux to it and run defrag from
> there.

Wouldn't it work to start the system in single user mode (which makes
/ read-only mounted)? Can defrag run in a read-only mounted partition?

> Or maybe you could just make up a boot/root disk with defrag utils on
> it.


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