> and then I defragmented the XP
> partition. I looked at my shared partition while I was there, and
> Windon't wanted me to defrag it as well. I didn't do it, but it was
> showing a lot of fragmented files. It just seemed like a bad idea for
> me to defrag with Windows something that I rely on in Linux. So, the
> question is this. Is there a utility that is used to defrag files on a
> Linux system, and is it advantageous to do so? Also, is it as dangerous
> as it seems that it could be to run the Windows defragmenter on my
> shared partition?
The only way I ever heard of defragmenting a LINUX FS is to copy
everything elsewhere, then back.
--
Ron KA4INM
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