About Defragmentation & Scandisk

jsrealty2 · 12-12-2006, 10:45 AM

Hello,

I am running a dual boot system and what I need to know is if it is ok to run the defragment & Scandisk programs in Windows XP Home Edition or not to run them. I also would like to know if UBUNTU has any programs that need to be run once in awhile like the defragment program or not. I would appreciate it if someone would respond to this as soon as possible.

Thank you,

JaDan Sudderth

sn68 · 12-12-2006, 11:01 AM

You can run scandisk & defragmentation where windows is installed, it doesn't affect linux (assuming that you have not installed linux on a fat32 partition)
Leave the linux partions alone when you run scandisk & defragment
smartctl is probably closest to scandisk & one doesn't need to defragment a linux partition because of the way files are stored in linux
Ref :
http://cbbrowne.com/info/defrag.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=331862

binary_y2k2 · 12-13-2006, 12:23 AM

fsck is the scandisk equivalent and will run by itself, normally every 30 days or 30 mounts of the file-system (i.e. restarts)