[Discuss] sluggish linux hard drive

[David Lee]

Thank you people.
Your help is appreciated.

David

pw wrote:
> Back up the volume, unmount the volume, and then do a fsck on it.
>
> Peter
>
>
> Andrew Burgess wrote:
>> unmount the volume and then do a fsck on it.
>>
>>
>> David Lee wrote:
>>
>>> Good evening
>>>
>>> Our rather big photo printing machine at work (Japan Camera) has 
>>> started to go wonky.
>>> Our tech support in Vancouver told us the hard drive in  said 
>>> machine could be getting sluggish. He didn't know too much about 
>>> defragging the drive, so I tried myself.
>>> I took it out and put it in another windows computer, and it 
>>> couldn't be recognized.
>>> So for some reason, I put in a Linux live cd (everyone carries a 
>>> spare cd in their backpacks, right?)
>>> It turns out to be a linux drive with about 7 partitions.
>>>
>>> I thought linux drives didn't need to be defragged, so I'm at a loss 
>>> on how to clean it up.
>>> Is there a checkdisk equivalent. Something I can do to fix. It could 
>>> be getting old.
>>> They don't seem to be in too much of a hurry to send a tech.
>>> I was hoping I could transfer the info to a new drive. Hows the best 
>>> way to do this?
>>>
>>> David
>>>
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