Re: disk defragmenting

From: Mike Chandler (mailmanmike_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 10/16/04

  • Next message: Richard Hector: "Re: Internet slow with Debian Sarge w/2.6" 
    To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:23:58 -0700

    On Friday 15 October 2004 07:31 am, robin wrote:
    > Mike Chandler wrote:
    > >On Friday 15 October 2004 06:49 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
    > >>Hello,
    > >>Is there any defragmenting tool in any distro, and if not why? Thanks!!!
    > >
    > >Nope, not needed.
    >
    > There are lots of hits on google for this one being:
    > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-admin/msg00513.html
    > If you are running the ext2 file system It seems only to be a possible
    > issue when the disk becomes very full. There is a deb package defrag,
    > description below:
    >
    > ext2, minix and xiafs filesystem defragmenter
    > As a file system is used, data tends to become more and more
    > scattered across the disk, degrading performance. A disk
    > defragmenter simply re-organises the data on the disk, so that
    > individual files occupy a single sequential set of disk blocks,
    > and all the free space on the disk is collected together in a
    > single region. This generally means that reading a whole file
    > is faster, and disk accesses in general are more efficient.
    Ok, you're right and I am wrong.
    I've never heard of that, never had the need for it, and don't run ext2
    anyway.
    The last I heard (some time ago) was Linux didn't need defrag, so never
    thought about it again. Must have gotten some bad information? 

    -- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
  • Next message: Richard Hector: "Re: Internet slow with Debian Sarge w/2.6"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: which PC
      ... (note disk not file system as a file system may not be on a disk). ... You don't even have to defrag windows. ... Yep, you don't understand filesystems. ...
      (rec.photo.digital)
    • Re: which PC
      ... (note disk not file system as a file system may not be on a disk). ... You don't even have to defrag windows. ... optimizing placement of tail fragments to allow them be ...
      (rec.photo.digital)
    • Re: which PC
      ... (note disk not file system as a file system may not be on a disk). ... You don't even have to defrag windows. ... many of the inherent problems with fragmentation. ...
      (rec.photo.digital)
    • Re: which PC
      ... (note disk not file system as a file system may not be on a disk). ... You don't even have to defrag windows. ... Yep, you don't understand filesystems. ...
      (rec.photo.digital)
    • Re: File Fragmentation
      ... CH> about this unless the file system accesses these files frequently. ... CH> re-hash is the same as the total time taken to re-hash all at once, ... CH>> to do so, you defrag. ... time the disk gets mostly full. ...
      (comp.os.linux.misc)