File repair

[Nathan Meyers]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:24:25PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:39:03 -0500
> "Rob Grass" <rob at bwclp.com> wrote:
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> > I am looking for utilities that will repair files and defragment my
> > hard drive - utilities that are compatible with RH 8.0.
> > can anyone give me some direction on this?
> > rob
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> > rob at r2es.com
> Rob,
> In general you do not need to defragment Linux (or Unix) file systems. 
> The fsck(8) utility is supplied with every Unix and Linux system to
> repair the file system. Each different file system contains its own
> checking and repair utility, and fsck is simply a wrapper. (eg. e2fsck
> for EXT2 file systems, reiserfsck for Reiser file systems). If you
> really want a defragmenter, here is one that you can use:
>  http://freshmeat.net/projects/defrag/?topic_id=136

fsck is, of course, for filesystem repair. If you're asking about
repairing individual files, that'll be extremely application-specific.

Nathan Meyers
nmeyers at javalinux.net