Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > Any way to defrag the partition? defrag does not seem to be working, it > gives me error message: > bad magic number in super block >
Andrei, this error also got me a while back when I tried out defrag, and as usual, reading the man page turned out to be a good idea :-) To defrag an ext2 partition you need to use the command 'e2defrag /dev/xxxx'. 'defrag' is for the minix file system which is why you get that error. Also note what the man page says about running defrag on a mounted and/or a bootable partition. Another way to "defrag" it (and the way I prefer) would be to copy the contents to another partition, re-format the original partition, and then copy back again. I always keep a bootable backup of my Debian partition (I use just one partition plus a swap partition), and occasionally will do the above, even though I've never found that fragmentation was any particular problem in Linux. Of course it's a good idea to run fsck on the file system first to check for and fix any errors. This mini-HOWTO gives a procedure (and a few variations of it) for copying a partition with the cp command. http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html Tom
