File repair

[Christoph Doerbeck a242369]

I was amazed the day I saw a WARNING message on my AIX servers indicating
I needed to run the defrag utility.  The was a fun conference call full
of puns and witty banter.  Who knew!


Nathan Meyers wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:24:25PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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> > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:39:03 -0500
> > "Rob Grass" <rob at bwclp.com> wrote:
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> > > I am looking for utilities that will repair files and defragment my
> > > hard drive - utilities that are compatible with RH 8.0.
> > > can anyone give me some direction on this?
> > > rob
> > >  
> > > rob at r2es.com
> > Rob,
> > In general you do not need to defragment Linux (or Unix) file systems. 
> > The fsck(8) utility is supplied with every Unix and Linux system to
> > repair the file system. Each different file system contains its own
> > checking and repair utility, and fsck is simply a wrapper. (eg. e2fsck
> > for EXT2 file systems, reiserfsck for Reiser file systems). If you
> > really want a defragmenter, here is one that you can use:
> >  http://freshmeat.net/projects/defrag/?topic_id=136
> 
> fsck is, of course, for filesystem repair. If you're asking about
> repairing individual files, that'll be extremely application-specific.
> 
> Nathan Meyers
> nmeyers at javalinux.net
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