On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:23:58 -0700, Mike Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
You didn't get bad info. 99% of the time you won't need defrag on a Unix-based system that uses inodes (which is almost every Unix-based native filesystem out there). -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
