Re: New Package: defrag 0.6-1

[david@elo.sw.ods.com (David Engel)]

Christoph Lameter writes:
> Package: defrag
> Architecture: i386
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
> Description: defragmenter for ext2 minix xiafs file systems
>  As a file system is used, data tends to become more and more scattered
>  over the disk, degrading performance.  A disk defragmenter simply
>  reorganises 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 more efficient.

Defrag-0.6 is over two years old!  Are you sure it's still safe to use
on current ext2 file systems?

David
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