That's correct. I've had filesystems for years that never get more than a few percent fragmentation. If you *really* want to do this, you need to copy e2fsck and defrag to a floppy and boot off the rescue disk. When the installation screen comes up, go to the option to start a shell (or switch to the second virtual terminal) and mount the floppy under /mnt. At this point none of your hard disk partitions are mounted so you can run e2fsck and defrag on them. Just ctl-alt-del to reboot the system when you're finished. I just e2fsck'd all the partitions on a box the other night using this very method. Jonathan On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 01:00:13PM -0600, Cheshire wrote: > You sure you need to defrag? I forget where the info was drawn from before, > but anyway, by nature of the e2 file system, it's quite the rarity that it > needs to be > defraged--one of those FAT habits I was glad to kick. > > |cheshire| > > -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver Larisch <o.larisch@cityweb.de> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Date: Monday, August 23, 1999 7:13 AM > Subject: problems with defrag 0.73 > > > >Hi !!!!!!!!!!!!! > >I ve a little problem with defrag 0.73. > >I tried to e2defrag my root partition /dev/hda4 and defrag said: cannot > work > >on mounted device. Then I 've tried to umount it but my system (debian 2.1 > >kernel 2.2.5) said: device is busy. I went to runlevel 1 in order to > >singeluse it, but the same game went on. In runlevel 1 the root partition > >/dev/hda4 is read only. I'm not able to unmount it. > >What did I wrong and how to shoot it?????????? > >Thanx IA, for helping me. > > > >Oliver > >o.larisch@cityweb.de > >Langenfeld/Germany > > > > > >-- > >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < > /dev/null > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null > -- Jonathan H. Wheaton | Insert some cool saying here. jwheaton@home.net | If you'd like, continue on this line.
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