[NMLUG] Further advamtage of GHOST

[sbrowne at ix.netcom.com (Steve Browne)]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:55:47 -0700, James wrote:

>On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:26:42PM -0700, Steve Browne wrote:
>> I didn't mention it the first time around, but Symantic GHOST for DOS
>> defragments a FAT32 volume, in its default setting, as it clones HDD
>> to HDD. Better, judging from performance, than all those time-waster
>> defrag apps. I haven't tested to discover if it also does so with an
>> ext2 or ext3 fs.
>> 
>> I know, you are all going to cry, "Linux doesn't need defragging!"
>> Well, not much, but it would be cool to include the service in a
>> cloning process.
>
>I don't generall defrag my ext2/3 partitions but there is a util called defrag
>for ext2.

If this is the one authored by Stephen Tweedle, it is only alpha.
However I see that O&O (Germany), mainstream publisher of MS
defraggers, has a beta "Defrag for Linux":
http://www.compresoft.com/english/o&o/defrag/defrag_linux.asp
I've emailed them to try it out (after I've backed up my data.   ;-) )

Steve
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