[Discuss] sluggish linux hard drive

[David Lee]

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