RE: defragmentation on M$ disc?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joris Huizer [mailto:jorishuizer@planet.nl]
> Sent: Sunday, 19 October 2003 9:02 PM
> To: debian-list
> Subject: defragmentation on M$ disc?
>
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm wondering, is 't possible to "defragmentate" a M$ disc
> while running
> in Debian? I want to make a partition there to try
> debian/testing (I'm
> running Woody right now but some things are a bit old :-p ) ,
> and I read
> the M$ disc needs to be "defragmentated" in order to do
> repartitioning
> without having to worry about losing information (is this
> correct?) 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 can
> mount the disc without a problem)
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Joris Huizer
>
what version of Windows are you using ?
Have you tried isolating the disk activity to identify the service or app
causing it ?
tbh, you really ought to consider asking a windows list/forum/channel.
Asking one OS list to fix problems in another OS before exhausting available
support resources seems daft to me.
For better of for worse, there are an awful lot of Windows boxes in use and
a corresponding number of support sites.
On the other hand, defragging one OS's file system with another OS is
technically interesting, so please let us know how you get on.
...backups, etc.
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