Re: [LUG] defrag, win98 and linux boot loaders

[Paul Sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok so if windows can't see that the reason it's taking so long is 
because it's not been scanned or defragged in over a year.  I just want 
to get my Fat32 file system scanned and defragged so it more efficient

I will keep trying and perhaps wait a few more hours before stopping, lol

I thought the boot loader was on the first part of the hdd and not on 
any particular file system, so if it's a dual boot and the bootloader is 
at the start of the first partition which houses windows then it would 
be on a fat partition, on the other hand if the whole hdd is linux then 
it would be on perhaps a ext2/ext3 or whatever file system, in which 
case I would not need scandisk as thats part of windows.

As I said I will keep trying

Paul

Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> On Friday 01 April 2005 16:39, Paul Sutton wrote:
>
> > does anyone know of any issues relating to linux bootloaders, and
> > running scandisk / defrag,  i get problems with scandisk too, takes
> > ages, I want to rule out boot loaders, so I can concentrate on the main
> > job which is to check for errors and defrag the drive.
>
>
> I take it by this you mean "will scandisk try to defrag my bootloader?", in 
> which case the answer is no - anything which isn't FAT, ie. isn't a Windows 
> partition, will be invisible to Windows.  So you couldn't defrag it even if 
> you wanted to!
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon
>
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