Re: Maximal Mount Check
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 MallarJ@aol.com wrote:
: In a message dated 3/4/99 7:40:39 AM Central Standard Time, tpfeifer@snet.net
: writes:
:
: > > The appear to be tools to `defrag' an ext2
: > > partition, but I never saw any convincing reasons for using them. They
: > > may even be a risk to your data.
: >
: > I've tried the ext2 defrag program, and while it seems to work OK, I
: > didn't see any noticable benefit from doing it, other than the fsck
: > summary information looks better :-)
: >
:
: So, defragging your disk isn't a normal Debian maintenance task? Is this true
: for all you guys that have been running Debian "forever"?
I can't say I've run Debian "forever", but I have been running it since
1.2 - I've never defragged a drive. I never defragged a drive with
BSDi, either, nor did I ever see a drive defragged when I worked around
SCO, HPUX, and IRIX ...
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