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

["Paul Alcock" <webmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of William J.A.
> Brillinger
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 2:55 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] (raq4) disk maintenance
>
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> At 01:50 PM 02/10/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >To answer your question in a less "I can't believe you don't know this"
> >manner -
> >
> >the file system that is used by Linux in most cases is EXT2.  It is
> >self-defragging. However, your question on "scandisk"-like software DOES
> >make sense - regardless of the statement from "France Telecom."    the
> >program "fsck", which is somewhere in a bin directory, does most of the
> >stuff that scandisk performs.
> >
> >-jim
>
> Thank you for your reply. Exactly what I was looking for.
> (Now if I could only figure out how to get out of a man page?)
>
> - Bill
>
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