Surface scan

[Leviatan]

I've only been using Linux for a few weeks, and haven't figured this out yet for some reason. Can someone please tell me how to surface scan/defrag?

Thanks in advance,
Sean Kernohan

[ 04 July 2001: Message edited by: Leviatan ]

[godot]

don't need to defrag with ext2, don't know about a surface scan though....

[fancypiper]

fsck is ised to check the filesystem.

[bdg1983]

The filesystem check 'fsck' will automatically run every so many times you boot your system. Somewhere between 5 and 10 boots. You'll notice that once in a while your system will take a little longer to go through the boot process.

There are defrag programs for Linux (check freshmeat.net) but they are really not necessary. The filesystem is quite efficient.