Re: Defragmenting disks under Linux
From: jludwig (wralphie_at_comcast.net)
Date: 04/07/04
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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 20:22:32 -0400
On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 17:30, M3 Freak wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 16:30, Chris Jones wrote:
> > As a long-time user of various Windoze "distro's" (from win3.11 all the
> > way to Win2k), I have come to recognise that one needs to regularly
> > de-frag hard-disks under windoze.
> >
> > My question is:-
> > Is linux susceptible to fragmentation?
> >
> > If so, then what tool is best to cure it, and keep it cured?
>
> You'll find that Linux filesystems don't fragment anywhere near as much
> as the Windows filesystems. Case in point: my crappy little Dell XPS
> M200s is 1.5% fragmented, and it's on 24x7 (since it's my multimedia,
> network storage and print server). My laptop's boot and root partitions
> (simple, default partition setup) are 0% and 2% fragmented. It's been
> running RH9 and was recently upgraded to FC1.
>
> If things do get out of hand in some way and your filesystems do start
> to fragment more than, say, 10%, you can simply copy everything out of
> the affected filesystem, and copy the data back. That should eliminate
> the fragmentation.
>
> However, I think you'll find fragmentation is going to be non-existent.
>
> HTH,
>
> Kanwar
> Systems Aligned Inc.
> www.systemsaligned.com
You know what? It's been so long since I even thought of de-fragging
under Linux, that I have even forgotten how to check for it.
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