Stephen, In response to your mail of Monday, October 14, 2002 7:21:18 AM: SL> 1) How to display the existing partition in full detail I always just use the command-line 'fdisk', issue a p (for print) then a q (for quit) and that's usually enough for me. Check out /etc/fstab too. SL> 2) What command shall issue to "defragment" the hard disc on Linux In my experience, I never defrag - if the filesystem is any good, it'll look after itself just fine. If you defrag, then the close packing makes it more liable to refragment, or so I believe. Never defrag'd a Linux box, never had any problems. SL> 3) What shall be the safe and easy way to re-partition a hard disc I do it during install using the Disk Druid program. Make all the changes you want, then they get committed during the install. -- Best regards, James.
