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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Defragment on Linux extfs
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 04:34:49 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- cp79111@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Kuo-Ping Hsu) writes:
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- >I got a defragement program at tsx-11.mit.edu (linux/ALPHA/defrag-0.2.tar.Z).
- >When I install and use it, my file system crashed. Have anyone can tell me
- >why. My Linux extended file system is ALPHA 11.
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- >cp79111@csie.nctu.edu.tw
- >K.P. Hsu
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- Did you run it on a mounted file system?? This is bad news, as it is moving
- disk structures around, and the last thing you want it to do is update and
- rewrite the old inode map and superblock back to the disk.
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- Try running efsck on it, but good luck as I don't know if it could help this.
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- James
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