Re: Disk Defragmentatio

[Vladimir Zolotykh <gsmith@eurocom.od.ua>]

On Tue, 09 May 2006 01:13:54 +1000
Arafangion <thestar@fussycoder.id.au> wrote:

> IraqiGeek wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I want to defragment my debian partition (the entire system is
> > installed in one partition). Googling around, I found references to
> > the unstable and oldstable defrag packages, however, when searching
> > through aptitude, and through apt-cache I couldn't find any packages
> > that can do this. BTW, I am running debian etch.
> 
> The first question is why do you want to defragment it? In the long run,
> it won't make much difference, and Linux distros fragment much less than
> windows does (Unless MS has improved in that regard).

I'd guess that OP wanted to make more partitions.
If this is the case parted may help.


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Vladimir Zolotykh