[TriLUG] HDD Maintenance

Dan Chen crimsun at email.unc.edu
Sat Apr 27 21:05:44 EDT 2002


On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 08:54:40PM -0400, Roy Vestal wrote:
> Question on file system maintenance. In Windoze there are 2 programs, 
> Scandisk and Defrag (Win 9x, 2k, and XP) for keeping your HDD "tuned" and 
> running effectively.

*fscks work well, but make sure you're running them on unmounted
partitions! ;) [That's how I lost _a lot_ of data the first go-round.]

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Dan Chen                 crimsun at email.unc.edu
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