System

raysr · 11-22-2003, 08:17 PM

As I await delivery of "Discovery 9.2" I was wondering if Mandrake has system tools as scandisk. defrag etc. raysr

trickykid · 11-22-2003, 08:21 PM

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Originally posted by raysr
As I await delivery of "Discovery 9.2" I was wondering if Mandrake has system tools as scandisk. defrag etc. raysr

Every distro is equipped with fsck which is similiar to scandisk. No need for a defragger, that's for the crappy Windows filesystems.

Whitehat · 11-22-2003, 08:22 PM

hmm....

You really don't need to defrag, or scandisk.

There is however FSCK in Linux (it is File System ChecKer).

See more on FSCK here:
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/fsck.8.html

Peace,
Whitehat

[edit] Of course........trickykid answers as I'm typing

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Schweet. Good job trickykid

teval · 11-22-2003, 08:30 PM

The new filesystems that Linux uses don't really need scandisk. They'll do it on their own if they do, and that's never happened to me yet. They keep journals of what's happening, and in a matter of seconds fix themselves up (2 * 80Gb HDDs)
The filesystem requires no mentainance to keep it from corrupting

raysr · 11-22-2003, 08:41 PM

Thanks for the information. raysr