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Re: Defragment



On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, David Z Maze wrote:

> fraction gets above 5% or so; the 'defrag' package in theory can help
> clean this up but it's a little dangerous, and usually unnecessary.

So this one machine at home that has over 60% on all 4 hard drives might
benefit from a bit of cleaning, eh? =)

And yes, defrag can be dangerous, and when it's not busy being dangerous,
it sucks up a couple hundred meg of ram to clean a 100 gig filesystem

Mike



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