-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 September 2003 01:10 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:21:17 -0700
David Herman
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.
My assumption has been that win4lins virtual drives (those in the home directory) are actually a sort of "magical" re-direction to the linux filesystem that the files are kept on. Therefore defragmentation should not be a problem, and that running defrag on these (emulated) drives would indeed be risky if not dangerous. The above is pure speculation, but I see no flaw in my reasoning.
One other potential dual booting issue WRT scandisk and defrag. I have seen cases where Windows may not fully respect the partition table.
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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.
- From my discussions w/ the comcast phone help is that they don't even know enough about linux to know that they don't support it. The installation tech, on the other hand surprised me when he hooked me up by saying "no, you don't need to boot into windows, linux, I can set it up in linux if you want." See ya - -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/V6WYBwgxlylUsJARAoYPAJwKUvS3v19K1s7e5u32fc9WJbwrrACeI7/C cl4m4WxSWXDdZclRMY1/HGQ= =FWZM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----