Ian Melnick wrote:
Now the stupid windows defragmentation tool keeps restarting as other stupid programs are writing so it'd take ages to defragmentate a disc of 40 GB :-P So I want to know wether this can be done under linux (I canWell, you already got your answer, but with defrag continually restarting in windows -- have you considered booting it into safe mode and doing it there? I've never had trouble with it restarting in safe mode. Using the M$ defrag *could* be safer than something else...
Especially if the drive is formatted NTFS. If it is NTFS, and Safe Mode doesn't provide a good solution, you could throw a second drive in temporily (or use a fast network connection), boot off of Knoppix or something similar (because you can't copy some Windows files while they're "in use"), copy everything off to another [network] drive, reformat the original as FAT32, copy the files back, then use the Windows tools to convert the drive back to NTFS. It's a pain, but if Safe Mode won't let you use defrag, it's a long convoluted work-around.
-- Kent