[TriLUG] Re: defragmenting

[Jon Carnes]

With the price of HD's being so low these days (especially IDE drives), put
in a large drive and "cp -a" the files to a new mount point, then umount the
old drive partition and remount the new drive partition in its place.  You
upgrade the partition/hard drive and defrag at the same time.

Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry" <gordon at med.unc.edu>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 12:18 PM
Subject: [TriLUG] Re: defragmenting


> Hello,
>         I don't know if defragmenting is required but one way to do it
> is to
> put all the files in a tape archive, delete the original files, and
> untar the tape archive back on the clean disk. Tape archives can be
> created on a hard disk and all the files are defragmented in the
> process. There are probably other copy/copy methods of defragmenting.
>         HTH,
> Jerry
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