Re: Defragmenting an ext2 FS, was --> Re: [LI] shoury

[Vimal Mathew <vml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 19 November 1999, Shanker Balan wrote:

> Yes! But the code is still not perfect yet. Dont defrag the partition
> in which lilo is installad - It will be corrupted.
     This is not because of any coding error in e2defrag. e2defrag
has to rearrange the locations of the files to defragment it. It may
end up moving the physical locations of your kernel-image files (/boot/*). LILO
depends on the physical location of your images and the previous info. that it had stored on them becomes incorrect, so you have to rerun LILO.
    So, if you are defragging the partition that contains your kernel images(ie. if there is any chance of your images getting re-arranged), run "lilo"(if you use lilo as a boot-loader) after defragmentation.
Bye,
--vml,
Model Engg. College, Cochin


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