Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

[Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>]

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On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:21:17 -0700
David Herman <mesamoo115@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a multi boot system which is occasionally called upon to run 
> win98. I've never had a problem on my other operating systems caused
> by defragmenting win98. There are 4 or 5 win partitions spread about
> my 2 drives (alongside 6 other bootable operating systems), they were
> all defragged about 10 days ago w/ no problem.
> 
> I also have win4lin but have never had the nerve to run defrag there
> (no sense pushing my luck)
I have not run a recent copy of Win4Lin, but you probably could run
defrag on a native FAT or FAT32 partition from Win4Lin, but do not do it
on your virtual C: drive, which is a directory in your home directory. 

One other potential dual booting issue WRT scandisk and defrag. I have
seen cases where Windows may not fully respect the partition table. 

BTW: I run a multi-boot on my desktop system:
1. SuSE 8.2 (newly upgraded) 
2. SuSE 8.1 
3. Windows ME. 

I boot into ME ONLY when I need to talk to the Comcast Customer Service
droids, and that is very rare. They only know direct connect and reboot.
But, I do not run email or surf on that system. My laptops are 100%
Linux. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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