Re: Defragging Ubuntu

philo wrote:
"frogcity" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:44545ACB.10406@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

15 years ago I used to 'defrag' in Ultrix (DEC's early version of Unix) by doing
dump and restores - never made a hell of a lot of difference.

Come to think of it, in the early 1980's we never had to defrag the DEC VAX/VMS systems either, and we had about 20 of them. I'd forgotten that.




although defrag may not really needed for linux
there is such a thing

http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/defrag.html

though i have never used a linux defrag utility...
on bootup you should be able to see that there is in-fact discontinuity.


Hmm. I bookmarked your link, but the consensus seems to be that defragging is not necessary.

Thanks.
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