today i just NEED to defrag the hard drive on my WinXP box because it runs a game server and it's been locking up in the past 2 days. i'm wondering if Linux has something that does what defrag does. will the Linix hard drive eventually crap out and be brutaly slow like the Windows one?

Unlike Windows, Linux uses robust filesystems that don't need defragmenting.

Although, if you run a newsserver, f.e., it'll write and erase lots of files everyday, and, eventually, will get fragmented.

With the old ext2 fs, is quite usual to see 0.5% fragmented filesystems in a home box. It may grow to 12% or more in servers like the abovve mentioned.

Although, it doesn't slow the machine as the FAT based systems (DOS etc...)

There's a experimental tool for defragmenting Linux's fs. I can't tell anything about it cause I never used. The best thing to do if the fs is too fragmented (WARNING: it may take some years to occur...), backup everything, format the partition and reinstall from the backup.

HTH,

vfs

re: does Lunix have somethin like defrag?

You could try looking on the Lunix homepage

He he, I was wondering how long it'd be until someone tipped him/her off about Lunix.

i thought the homepage was linux.org

linux isn't really a company you know.......

To Chocco: Look at the title... I think it was a spelling mistake in your case?

does Lunix have somethin like defrag?

nope, it's spelled right. everybody says Lunix, some people even say L00nix

Dear Lord man!

"Hello this is Linus Tooorvalds and I pronounce "Linux" as: "Linux""

HTH. Pay attention to whom you listen...

vfs

go ask any group of people, there's lots who say L0000nix because it sounds funny

well what are you standing around for then? go and check out the lunix page!!!

Sweet momma, this lunix page looks like horse shit... Ohw I C! It's made with Micro$oft Frontpage... That explaines the bad smell....

CathodioN.

if you manage virtual memory yourself in windows you may not want to defrag the harddisk.

better if you defrag your system before enabling manage virutal memory yourself

Maybe in Canada... In Poland everybody says "Linux". That's why I was confused.

miscommunication between the common language lol

hmmmm, that is a pretty crappy page lol. well at least i don't worry about people mocking me, it says right at the bottom of my website "Created by Chooco using Dreamweaver, manualy editted using 1stpage2000" lol

what the hell is that lunix site anyway? in the meta tags it says a description could be "little unix" whatever the hell that is.