On Saturday 24 May 2003 00:28, Adrian Costescu wrote:

On Saturday 24 May 2003 01:36, Marian Routh wrote:

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On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 09:57, Adrian Costescu wrote:

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HAIL! I have a stupid question: Is there any disk defragmenter for windows partitions who runs on linux???

Hail back at ya. I found this url: http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/faqs/section4.html#q_4_3 and this one: http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/linuxdisk/Misc/linuxdisk13.002. html

but basically, I don't think you need one.

Malke

Thanx Malke! I was misunderstood! I want to defrag windows (FAT 32) partition while i am in linux! i don't know if it's possible! Many 10x anyway! ==============

Adrian, I think you will find that if you use the defrag on Windows, you will lose your Linux. If everything is on the same drive, it's advisable not to use defrag as it does the whole driver without regard to anything else on the drive. Just another one of those things Windows likes to do to remove those other operating systems. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.5.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

Thats correct. Just boot to the winblows and use c:\windows\defrag.exe then reboot to linux. Norton utilitys does a better job and likely someone in your local lug can loan you a copy. One other simple method requires pkzip which as I remember is available for linux. Basically you do a zip recursively of the whole drive with move option not including the system files thus cleaning out the windows drive ; then do a pkunzip setting for whatever attangement by name extention etc order. in DOS : Pkzip -Prmu h:\cdrive c:\*.* "Make zip storing directorys(P) recursively(r) moving(m) and updating(u)" capitolization is a must Prmu. Pkunzip -den h:\cdrive c:\ "Restore zip contents using directory(d) structure extention(e)order before name(n)" I dont know if gzip has all this abilitys. CWSIV On Sat, 24 May 2003 07:13:35 +0100 John Lamb writes:

BandiPat wrote:

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Adrian, I think you will find that if you use the defrag on Windows, you will lose your Linux. If everything is on the same drive, it's advisable not to use defrag as it does the whole driver without regard to anything else on the drive. Just another one of those things Windows likes to do to remove those other operating systems.

Not so. The defrag programs for Windows 98 and NT (I haven't checked 95)

only defragmented a single partition. So, provided linux uses separate partitions, you should be safe.

It's difficult, in any case, to imagine how a defragmenter could work across partitions: they might have different filesystems (even under Windows) and you certainly don't want files moved from one partition to another.

Note that Windows doesn't use the word "partition", but rather the word "drive". Presumably this goes back to M$DOS where they hadn't thought about the possibility that the two might be different.

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On Sat, 24 May 2003 09:04:35 -0400 Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Sat, 24 May 2003 07:28:12 +0300 Adrian Costescu wrote:

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I was misunderstood! I want to defrag windows (FAT 32) partition while i am in linux! i don't know if it's possible! Many 10x anyway! While I have not tried it, it might be possible to use the Windows defrag program under DOSEMU or WINE (or Crossover Office).

I've been reading this thread with a thought in the back of my mind, so here goes..... Assuming you have enough free space to play with: Dosn't copying data off to another partition, formatting the windows partition, then recopying it back, reorganize the data like defrag? I guess you might loose proper booting of the windows partition, but a quick sys could fix that. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation

zentara wrote:

I've been reading this thread with a thought in the back of my mind, so here goes..... Assuming you have enough free space to play with: Dosn't copying data off to another partition, formatting the windows partition, then recopying it back, reorganize the data like defrag? I guess you might loose proper booting of the windows partition, but a quick sys could fix that.

This works in Linux and I've done it in Windows NT for partitions other than the C: drive. I think it's still the recommended way to defrag winNT. I think it doesn't work for the Win98 C: drive. I tried defragging an old dos partition under win4lin 5: it doesn't work. -- JDL Non enim propter gloriam, diuicias aut honores pugnamus set propter libertatem solummodo quam Nemo bonus nisi simul cum vita amittit.