__/ [Roy Culley] on Wednesday 08 February 2006 18:52 \__
> I have XP Pro installed under vmware. Today vmware crashed. When I
> tried to restart it it failed because of a lockfile. I remove the
> lockfile and then I get a popup saying it can't write to disk. I
> go to edit config and select the disk. Here's what it showed:
>
> Current size: 8.5GB
> Maximum size: 8.5GB
> System free: 0
>
> So I click the Defragment button and then it shows:
>
> Current size: 8.5GB
> Maximum size: 8.5GB
> System free: 6.8GB
>
> 6.8GB freed up by defragmenting! MS SW is just mickey mouse crap. I've
> admin'd *nix systems for over 15 years and never had a problem due to
> filesystem fragmentation. Even heavily used read / write filesystems
> have at most a few percent fragmentation after years of use.
I remember defragmenting my hard-drive every night to earn some space. I had
only 170 MB at the time and was running MS-DOS. Evidently, filesystems from
Microsoft still suffer from deficiencies that have not been addressed.
Bringing to mind the number of hours I spent defrag'ing.exe is annoying to
say the least. Before I started using Linux, I thought it was a "necessary
evil". I now know it was just "evil".
The only maintenance I have done on this SuSE 8.1 box for the past two years
is emptying ~/.thumbnails (about twice) and /tmp (only once, last year).
Roy
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