linux equivalents for defrag and chkdsk

[Michel D'HOOGE]

On Friday 25 August 2006 00:09, Dwayne Rightler wrote:
> Linux has no need for defrag since linux filesystems handle fragmentation
> on the fly.
I just read about Shake (http://vleu.net/shake/) that is a defragmenter that 
runs in userspace... You can also have a look at 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-463204-start-75.html and 
http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2006/08/17/why_doesn_t_linux_need_defragmenting

(Thanks to this french news: http://linuxfr.org/2006/08/20/21216.html)
-- 
Michel
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