Re: Disk Defragmenter

J.O. Aho wrote:

Morse wrote:

Have you considered installing ext3 support in Windows so you can do away
with NTFS? Obviously you'll need to keep the Windows install partition as
NTFS but you could have an ext3 partition for all your data, acessable
from both OSes.

You can always use ntfs3g instead of the in-kernel ntfs support and you
don't have to worry about the corruption. But fragmentation on that file
system will be the same, no matter if you access it from a microsoft
environment or from a Linux environment.


I'll give that a look, thanks. I'd heard something about it but last time I
read about it, ISTR was still slightly buggy (on large file writes maybe?
My memory fails me!) It would be nice to be able to write to my NTFS
partitions occasionally, it's something I've always avoided like the plague
in case of disaster!



I've never tried it myself so I'm not at all knowledgeable about it but
apparently there is such a thing as ext3 drivers for Windows. This may or
may not help, depending on your circumstances of course.

I would be worried about corruption on the ext3 with writes from
microsoft, seen such happen with earlier tools. I rather have a none
booting microsoft than a none booting Linux.


I'm glad you mentioned that- I definitely won't be trying that out now,
thanks for the tip! In my case, not being able to write to non-native FSes
is not the end of the world, and certainly not worth taking risks over.

Morse

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