How to "defrag" FFS partition?

[skurk]

Something went wrong during an installation, so now my Amiga thinks my hd is full (3 gig partition, fresh install OS3.9).

Any way to "defrag" the drive, or should I start from scratch with a format?

[Vincent]

You could try ReOrg.  I've seen that fix the volume bitmap before starting it's defrag.

If that doesn't work try QuarterBack Tools.

Both should be on Aminet somewhere.

[Oli_hd]

Something went wrong during an installation, so now my Amiga thinks my hd is full (3 gig partition, fresh install OS3.9).

You dont need to defrag your drive, its worse than that.
The format of the drive has failed and the drive contents need validating.
If you leave your machine turned on for a while you will notice the harddrive light stays on, this is the Amiga trying to fix it.
Leave it for a while (few hours maybe on a 3gig drive)

Some things to note though, FFS does this when you turn the machine off or reset while somethings being wrote to the drive, make sure the harddrive is not doing anything before turning off.
there is a different file system called SFS which is available from Aminet which will survive the above resets without problem, you may want to back the drive up and re-partition the drive using that filesystem.
Also OS3.9 (and all pre os4 os's) only support up to 2gig partitions, programs dont like partitons above that size. Think about dropping it to 2 gig.
Enjoy

[Piru]

Also OS3.9 (and all pre os4 os's) only support up to 2gig partitions, programs dont like partitons above that size. Think about dropping it to 2 gig.

OS 2.0 and above handle >2GB partitions just fine (they might have limits at 4GB however). Workbench, HDToolBox and Info command might show funny values for (free) storage though, but those can be safely ignored. You probably also want to use QUICK-option when formatting the partitions. AmigaOS 3.9 most definitely supports >2GB.

Some applications (such as installers) have problems with partitions having more than 2GB free, though. They are equally broken under any AmigaOS version, including 4.

[Matt_H]

I will vouch for partitions >2GB working fine in OS3.9. I have several :-)

[Daedalus]

Me too, all working fine... The first partition does have to be less than 2GB though as it initially is read before setpatch is loaded... I think? :-?