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Old 09-03-2002, 09:59 AM   #1
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Lightbulb HDD Utils


Hello!

Can someone advice me a good program for checking disks, defragmenting them ( if this thing is needed in Linux) or something....

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Old 09-03-2002, 10:19 AM   #2
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fsck does some of the jobs you described.
 
Old 09-03-2002, 10:27 AM   #3
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ext2 and related file systems very rarely, if ever, need manual defragmentation.

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Old 09-04-2002, 01:13 PM   #4
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But why they don't need any fragmentation?
 
Old 09-05-2002, 04:00 AM   #5
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try parted!
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/

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