Re: defrag

[Cheshire <cheshire@penguinpowered.com>]

Stephen Pitts wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:05:51PM -0600, Cheshire wrote:
> > I wanted to defrag my file system but on the command 'defrag /dev/hda5'
> > and 'e2defrag /dev/hda5' I get: [e2]defrag: bad magic number in
> > super-block
> >
> > Feedback welcome and appreciated.
> >
> 
> Are you sure you need to defragment your partition? From the Multiple-Disk-HOWTO:
> 13.2.  Defragmentation
> 
> This is very dependent on the file system design, some suffer fast and
> nearly debilitating fragmentation. Fortunately for us, ext2fs does not
> belong to this group and therefore there has been very little talk
> about defragmentation tools. It does in fact exist but is hardly ever
> needed.
> 
> If for some reason you feel this is necessary, the quick and easy
> solution is to do a backup and a restore. If only a small area is
> affected, for instance the home directories, you could tar it over to
> a temporary area on another partition, verify the archive, delete the
> original and then untar it back again.
> 
> --
> Stephen Pitts
> smpitts@midsouth.rr.com
> webmaster - http://www.mschess.org


>From the description, chances are decent that I don't. One of those
nasty win/fat habits I suppose :)