On 5/20/05, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc@ruralcomm.com> wrote: > more than 5 months old and has never been defragged but I'm still very > much a newbie. It's very unlikely that your filesystem needs defragmenting after 5 months. As other have already noted, ext3 isn't prone to fragmentation. I wasn't even aware there was an ext2 defragmenting utility, though. The traditional solution would be to use dump/restore. -- Adam Fabian (awfabian@gmail.com)