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Re: defraging



On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:33:00AM -0600, James Sasitorn wrote:
> any recommendations/reviews on defraging software? A quick look at freshmeat
> shows:
> 
> defrag
> e2defrag

you don't need it, and you shouldn't use them either, ext2 like most
UN*X filesystems really have no problem with fragmentation and
therefore very little attention goes into making software to do it.
as a result the very few (i thought only one) defraggmenter was fairly
broken and did a better job destroying the filesystem then
defragmenting.  

its a waste of time anyway since as I said its not a problem, since in
most cases ext2 never needs it.  really if your having a problem with
fragmentation it usually means your filesystem is too full or your
partitioning is not very efficient. (say /usr and /var or /home on the
same partition) 

leave the defragging stuff behind with the broken OS that needs it.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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