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?
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