[ale] Ubuntu Linux Defrag EXT4

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 10:50 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> the command that was given ran by itself, unattended, and did not ask,
> just 
> reported. FOR SURE I would have answeed NO, on a mounted filesystem!!
> I used to bring down UNIX systems in less than 2 seconds by running
> this 
> script:
> while true
> do
> sync
> sync
> sync
> uadmin 2 0
> done
> 
> so it would sync 3 times and literally shut off like a lightswitch was
> thrown.
> Normally I only did that on sick systems where I was shutting it down
> for 
> severe maintenance :) 

Is that Sun (err, Oracle) speak for something?

	--- Mike