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Re: [Q] fsck at every boot?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Eivind_Glomsr)
Tue Nov 12 04:23:07 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:20:48 +0100 (MET)
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Eivind_Glomsr=F8d?= <teg@stud.imf.unit.no>
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On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Robert Hart wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Borg wrote:
>
> > Actually, IMHO the answer is yes. "fsck" not only checks
> > FS for corrupted data but also defragments it.
>
> ??? is this really the case?
No.
> I always believed that the only way to unfragment an ext2
> partition was to take a backup, reformat and re-install
> from the backup...
There is an utility for defragmenting the partitions without reformatting
around somwhere. Hasn't been updated for a loong time, though.
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