Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Dec 1996 13:04:53 +0200 (GFT Standard Time) | From | Marko Sepp <> | Subject | Re: Defragmentation Utility |
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At 11:18 15.12.1996 -0500, you wrote:
>1) It wouldn't compile as ELF (I think, but I am unsure) >2) It doesn't run a kernel above 1.2.13 (Message was: "Wrong Magic Number >in SuperBlock") > > Therefore, I must boot from floppies to perform defragmentation on >my filesystems (which were formatted with ext2fs 0.5a, I think, so there >is no big risk of incompatibilities). If you want to try this at home, >please be sure to have backups and/or access to a UPS (if power fails >during defragmentation, you're very likely to loose most of the data on >that partition, it not the entire partition). >
I've had my partition corrupted beyond recognition every time i've used Defrag :-)
According to its developer, i have a problem with some memory chip, so that the data is getting corrupted while residing in memory.
So now i'm waiting for some memory tester to come up, so i could test my memory thourougly with different patterns. The one i've tried this far, memtest, which i ftp-ed from somewhere, has always came up with zero(0) errors. I have read the SIG11 FAQ, so i _do_ know that it can take hours for the corruption to show up.
Marko
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