[techtalk] Disk utilities under Linux

[Andrew Wendt]

On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Conor Daly wrote:
>There are significant differences between Windows/DOS and Linux/UNIX as
>far as filesystems are concerned.  The primary difference is that Windows
>is a single-user system while linux is multiuser.  This has implications
>for you using a direct disk access program like Speed Disk (Linux
>equivalent fsck (actually, Speed disk and Scan disk rolled into one with
>probably a bit more on the side!)) while another user is writing to the
>disk.  For example, suppose speed disk has read a cluster from the disk,
[...]

I don't think fsck really does anything to combat fragmentation does it?

I think it just checks for and repairs filesystem damage, like Scandisk does.

TTFN
Andy