I need to know which sectors of a partition are occupied with data and which not, like the display on Windows defragmenters. How to do this? (SUSE 9.3 and 10 RC 1) df, du and KDirStat don't help me here. Googled some, but no results. Maybe I was using the wrong keywords. Can anybody help me? Thanks. -- (o- Penguin #395953 lives at http://samvit.org //\ subsisting on ancient Indian wisdom ... V_/_ and modern computing efficiency! :)
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
I need to know which sectors of a partition are occupied with data and which not, like the display on Windows defragmenters. How to do this? (SUSE 9.3 and 10 RC 1)
df, du and KDirStat don't help me here. Googled some, but no results. Maybe I was using the wrong keywords.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks.
You might try KDiskFree. You can find it on the menu, or use the "kdf" command.
James Knott wrote:
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
I need to know which sectors of a partition are occupied with data and which not, like the display on Windows defragmenters. How to do this? (SUSE 9.3 and 10 RC 1)
df, du and KDirStat don't help me here. Googled some, but no results. Maybe I was using the wrong keywords.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks.
You might try KDiskFree. You can find it on the menu, or use the "kdf" command.
kdf only shows the percentage used/free. Linux filesystems "defragment" disks so this is never an issue. If it says it's 60% full, then you have 40% space available, whereas with Windows (my knowledge here is ancient), you can run into space problems because you don't have enough contiguous space for a file and you need to defragment to get the space, that isuue does not arise in Linux. Linux can run on a PC, but it's not Windows, it's not aping Windows and it's totally different - coming from Windows, approach Linux saying "I know diddly-squat about this OS, Windows norms don't apply". Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
I need to know which sectors of a partition are occupied with data and which not, like the display on Windows defragmenters. How to do this? (SUSE 9.3 and 10 RC 1)
this have no signification. nowaday hard drives are ruled by they own onboard microprograms and what they annouce is fake. thats why they seems all without bad sectors when such disk nearly don't exist (there are spare sectors) jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr
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I need to know which sectors of a partition are occupied with data and which not, like the display on Windows defragmenters. How to do this? (SUSE 9.3 and 10 RC 1)
df, du and KDirStat don't help me here. Googled some, but no results. Maybe I was using the wrong keywords.
I think you have to tinker at the kernel module level to tinker with that kind of information. Of course, you can analyze the disk structure to get that information, but it not simple... you will probably have to develop your own app to see that information. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDRx0NtTMYHG2NR9URAuUUAJ9GcBLGPOBRwT0zuAxYX5NbWQSWowCeJ5lM LUgnEbtiJ6CcghTcFpEMc3U= =rtja -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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