<p>Nah. *NIX assumes anyone running something like that knows what they're doing and thus responds in a typical anti-social fashion. </p>
<p>On Sep 13, 2010 12:03 PM, "Ron Frazier" <<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com">atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Greg,<br>> <br>> Thanks for the tip. Based on other comments, I don't think I'll be <br>
> defragging Linux just yet.<br>> <br>> A few people mentioned corrupting a Linux / Unix HDD by running utilities <br>> while the partition is mounted. When I run chkdisk on my Windows system in <br>> read / write mode, it pops up a dialog that says it can't run the test now <br>
> because the system is in use. It offers an option to run the test the next <br>> time I reboot, and I click yes or no. Linux should offer me the same <br>> courtesy, in my opinion.<br>> <br>> Ron<br>> <br>
> At 9/12/2010 10:11 PM -0400, you wrote:<br>>>The ext2/ext3/ext4 userspace tools are common. (e2xxxxxx works for all 3.)<br>>><br>>>e4defrag is the exception since it is ext4 only.<br>>><br>>>Greg<br>
>><br>>>On 9/12/10, Ron Frazier <<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com">atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> > Ed,<br>>> ><br>>> > Thanks for the note. So far, it seems not much is available for EXT4 and<br>
>> > several people say it's not very necessary. I'm a little leery about<br>>> > trying what appears to be and EXT2. Maybe someone else knows if this <br>>> works.<br>>> ><br>>> > Ron<br>
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