Stephen Pitts wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:05:51PM -0600, Cheshire wrote: > > I wanted to defrag my file system but on the command 'defrag /dev/hda5' > > and 'e2defrag /dev/hda5' I get: [e2]defrag: bad magic number in > > super-block > > > > Feedback welcome and appreciated. > > > > Are you sure you need to defragment your partition? From the > Multiple-Disk-HOWTO: > 13.2. Defragmentation > > This is very dependent on the file system design, some suffer fast and > nearly debilitating fragmentation. Fortunately for us, ext2fs does not > belong to this group and therefore there has been very little talk > about defragmentation tools. It does in fact exist but is hardly ever > needed. > > If for some reason you feel this is necessary, the quick and easy > solution is to do a backup and a restore. If only a small area is > affected, for instance the home directories, you could tar it over to > a temporary area on another partition, verify the archive, delete the > original and then untar it back again. > > -- > Stephen Pitts > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
>From the description, chances are decent that I don't. One of those nasty win/fat habits I suppose :)
