BandiPat wrote:
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. -- JDL Non enim propter gloriam, diuicias aut honores pugnamus set propter libertatem solummodo quam Nemo bonus nisi simul cum vita amittit.