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gparted package

  1. Bug #121943
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 121943

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Geoffrey G Wright (geoffreygwright) wrote : Re: Intrepid, Hardy: Gparted freezes with external USB HD

You could be onto something! I'd just assumed the partition wouldn't be fragmented cos it was only created last week and it was less than 50% full. All I'd done was restored a load of files, reduced the size by 3GB, then left it.

However I just booted into XP, ran the defragmenter and it's in atrocious state. Just the 'Anlayse' portion took several minutes. After deleting loads of files (down to 30% of 300GB) and 90 minutes defragmenting the progress had only reached 6% - I'm not sure whether to continue with that.

Note I backed up and restored using Rsync - I guess that was a bad idea.