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

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 10:52:41PM -0800, Vimal Mathew wrote:

>      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.

Right on. I find the LILO way of doing things pretty ugly. Hope 
someone comes up with a better bootloader, which can understand
ext2fs.

	-Arun

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