Jay Mistry wrote:
I would like to defragment my Windows C:/ drive (main system drive, NTFS-formatted) from within Linux so as to enable moving/defragging in-use & system files as well. Is there a method/ utility that will enable me to do this ?
I can't say from personal experience, but they *should* be renumbered, as the kernel starts numbering from whence it found them. I think you may be able to override the numbering via special changes in 'udev', (at least you can with 'ethX'). However, if you label your partitions (use XFS, or another file format that supports labels), then you can mount by label and when the devices are renumbered, it won't matter. I assume (?) that none of them are 'boot disks' (is that even possible these days?)... Note -- down deep, grub seems to use serial numbers or something weird. I ran into this when I moved my disk image to a new server and it wouldn't boot because the serial-id path was different. I just put in for it to boot from /dev/sdaX and all was fine...damn newfangled boot mechanisms that are supposed to protect me from changing disks... What about changing machines!?! :-) -l -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org