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Re: Defragmentation



Hi

Iftach Hyams wrote:
> 
>  The defrag program can't run while the FS is mounted. Is there a way to
> boot with a diskette and apply it ?

You can do it with the filesystem mounted read-only. In your boot prompt
(lilo?) give a parameter '-b' (or better, 'boot=/bin/sh' - I don't know
what Mandrake does with '-b'), make sure the fs is mounted read-only
(I personally do it with ':>tt' and expect an error message) and
run whatever you want (defrag, debugfs, fsck, ...).
Much easier than finding a floppy with no bad blocks :-)

> (My system is Mandrake 6 if it is relevant).
> 
> 
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> Iftach Hyams
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