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Re: Maximal Mount Check



MallarJ@aol.com wrote:

> 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"?
>
> -jay
>

I've been running Debian since before 0.91 and I've *never* defragged a drive.
I've got several systems running some at home, soem at the office, some at client's
site.
Not a one has ever been defragged.  And the last I looked, I don't think any of them
have
fragmentation over 10%.  Could be, but I've not been paying that much attention to
it.
It truly doesn't seem like an issue on ext2 filesystems.

Chuck

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