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thewretchedbeaver
02-04-2003, 03:56 AM
is there any way to defragment an ntfs file system from a knoppix booted enviroment, this would help me defrag the windows system files after updates

thanx

eadz
02-04-2003, 05:13 AM
no, and it wont anytime soon

thewretchedbeaver
02-04-2003, 05:23 AM
is there a program for linux that can, i could add it in a remaster?

eadz
02-04-2003, 05:27 AM
no. linux doesnt' have write support for NTFS at all ( M$ is nasty )

pachox
02-04-2003, 10:06 AM
give a look at: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/status.html

unfortunately what u are looking for (ntdefrag) is still to develop, but u can see what u can do.

anyway... are u sureit's a good idea to defrag win2k by linux???
bad idea at all i think, just be happy to read and write data. to do this (write on ntfs) u need to recompile ur kernel with write support.
regards, pacho

Alextreme
02-04-2003, 05:08 PM
WRITING IS EXPERIMENTAL!

don't do it. you'll probably lose data, your computer will burn up and your girlfriend will leave you. reading is okay, even better is to dump windows altogether (or, if you have to use windows, at least use FAT. It's an ugly filesystem, but at least you can use it under linux with some certainty).

Now you'll probably try it anyway, just don't tell us we didn't warn you :D

pachox
02-05-2003, 01:16 AM
well if u fear about what can happen anytime u do something u go nowhere. sure backup ur files, then write. it's since the start of 2.4 kernel i write to ntfs, why don't wanna try

thewretchedbeaver
02-05-2003, 01:36 AM
well i'm not to brave with my ntfs partition and i do indeed need windows because of many of the programs i can't replace in linux