Re: Maximal Mount Check
>
> In a message dated 3/4/99 7:40:39 AM Central Standard Time, tpfeifer@snet.net
> writes:
>
> > > The appear to be tools to `defrag' an ext2
> > > partition, but I never saw any convincing reasons for using them. They
> > > may even be a risk to your data.
> >
> > I've tried the ext2 defrag program, and while it seems to work OK, I
> > didn't see any noticable benefit from doing it, other than the fsck
> > summary information looks better :-)
> >
>
> So, defragging your disk isn't a normal Debian maintenance task? Is this true
> for all you guys that have been running Debian "forever"?
Yes, defragging your disk is _not_ a normal Debian maintenance task. I
have been running linux for some 3 three years now (started with
Slackware) and never defragged a linux disk. The point is that the
ext2 file system is, unlike fat or vfat, mostly `self-defragmenting'.
This has to do with the way files are written and blocks are
allocated. Situations where fragmentation on an ext2 file system
becomes so bad that it yields a noticeable deterioration of performance
are rare, I never heard of it.
HTH,
Eric
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