On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 02:51:53PM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote: snip [...] > How do you know you need a defrag? Mainly just a gut feeling. I don't have any hard and fast data that tells me this. A *snicker* tiny thing I forgot to mention when originally posting this thread. Although I was having some issues with my filesystem after using bittorrent for a while, there was another event that probably has played a role in the current state of the HDD. I run Mac OS X on my laptop, which does not natively support ext2/3. The HDD in question is ext3 in an ieee1394 chasis. I thought it would be fun to try and get the drive working under osX. I grabbed the ext2 third party driver and begin to tinker. When I plugged the harddrive in the mac, with the driver loaded, it did indeed find the drive. I was able to read all the information, (i.e. manufacturer/specs/chs/etc.) only one cavaet, it decided to write its own information to the filesystem. My mac was telling me there were 14 partitions on this HDD. I knew this was not correct, I only created one. I was never able to mount the drive on the mac. I was, however, able to create and mount an ext2 filesytem on some spare space I have on the laptop harddrive. So the ext2 third party driver seems to work, but possibly a little too much. Has anyone else tried to use ext2/3 filesytems locally using osX? -- Linux Administrator || Technology Specialist || Wifi Engineer http://autonomous.tv/~spencer/resume/ || spencer at autonomous.tv Key fingerprint = 173B 8760 E59F DBF8 6FD2 68F8 ABA2 AB08 49C7 4754 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030719/cc8d9827/attachment.pgp