Re: Defragmentation of harddrives in Linux

From: Henriette Kress (spamtrap.hetta_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 02/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:28:35 +0200

Per Pedersen wrote:

> I am running Suse Linux 9, and looking for the tool/s for this purpose, left
> me empty handed, I then searched the documentation for the words
> "Defragmentation" and "Fragmentation", resulting in nothing.

You don't have to worry about that under linux file systems ... until you
use 90-95% (or more) of a partition, in which case, fragmentation occurs.

Hetta 

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