Re: Defragmenting disks under Linux
From: Pedro Fernandes Macedo (webmaster_at_margo.bijoux.nom.br)
Date: 04/06/04
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:30:12 -0300 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Chris Jones wrote:
>My question is:-
>Is linux susceptible to fragmentation?
>
>If so, then what tool is best to cure it, and keep it cured?
>
>
Every filesystem is subject to fragmentation. On linux (using ext2/3 ,
xfs , jfs) , the filesystem is smart enough to keep fragmentation to a
minimum level. Unlike windows/dos , you dont need to worry about this.
If you reboot your system very often , it will sometimes check the
integrity of the disk and that's all you'll see about disk maintenance
in normal linux usage (you can run fsck to check your disks , but be
sure not to run it on mounted filesystems. this is done automatically at
boot time after a certain time period or a certain number of mounts).
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