Re: [cobalt-users] (raq4) disk maintenance

[Dan Keller <dan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:54 PM 10/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
>> Is there some equivalent to defrag and scandisk on a Raq4?

The most useful disk storage maintenance tool
in my experience on Unix-type platforms is fsck.
If your disk has bad blocks, it will find them (and
other things, too.)  Defragging is not an issue
with this filesystem;  fragmented files do not
degrade performance.  But if you reeeally believe
this to be a problem (e.g. you have some disk-
intensive, i/o-bound application) you can collect
your files in a tar archive (see "man tar" for details),
then delete them, then restore them from the archive.

Dan Keller
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