Re: [cobalt-users] Drive Maintenance on RaQ3

[jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jens Kristian Søgaard)]

"Nick Voth" <nvoth@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Is there such a program that folks should or could run under Linux? What
> about defragmentation? Is it necessary under Linux?

For "scandisk" and similar "care-takers", the job is done by fsck in
Linux (for RaQs it's e2fsck in particular). This is done automatically
at reboot (for disks that haven't been marked as "dirty" it will
happen every xx reboots (10, 20 or something like that)).

Defragmentation isn't really needed on RaQs, due to the way the Linux
Ext2 filesystem is designed. A defragmentation program do however
exists. It is not in any way necessary in the same way that it's
Windows counterpart is.

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Jens Kristian Søgaard, Mermaid Consulting I/S,
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