Re: Disk Defragmenter

Sybren Stuvel wrote:
J.O. Aho enlightened us with:
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.

That's why I want to defrag it. To keep my computer usable while
defragging, I want to defrag from Linux.

I would think that be a step clouser to cause major problems, the information
has been scares already on how the mcirosoft file system works and and on top
of that add another level of mechanism won't make it easier.


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'd prefer to keep my partitions as large as possible - right now I
have just four (ntfs, ext3 /, ext3 /home and swap). I try to keep my
free space as continuous as possible.

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 worried about the exact same thing. I don't want Windows malware
affecting my Linux filesystems.

Why not use a network file system for shares? this way it looks for the
microsoft machines like the filesystem is running on vfat/ntfs while it in
reality runs on xfs/jfs/reiserfs/ext3 and you didn't have to defragment at all.

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//Aho
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