On Monday 17 Jan 2005 01:38, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 16:52 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > How do I go about doing maintaince on my fat32 harddrive partions? On > > Windows I know defrag and scandisk are used. And I'm under the > > impression that such maintaince is done automatically by etx3. So how do > > I do this with vfat? > > > > Thank you. > > fsck can be run on an unmounted vfat partition which takes care of the > scandisk functions. > I do not know of a way to defrag a vfat partition under Linux. fsck vfat maintenance is ALPHA AFAIK. ie. Don't rely on it. -- Tony Dietrich ------------- Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low. -- Wallace Sayre
