[NMLUG] Further advamtage of GHOST

[peter at espen.net (Peter Espen)]

'Carbon Copy Cloner' is better than Ghost.  Oh...I forgot...this is
a linux list


> 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
> Stephen B. Browne
> sbrowne@ix.netcom.com
> "Ubi bene, ibi patria."