Mike Chandler wrote:
There are lots of hits on google for this one being: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-admin/msg00513.htmlOn Friday 15 October 2004 06:49 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: If you are running the ext2 file system It seems only to be a possible issue when the disk becomes very full. There is a deb package defrag, description below: ext2, minix and xiafs filesystem defragmenter As a file system is used, data tends to become more and more scattered across the disk, degrading performance. A disk defragmenter simply re-organises the data on the disk, so that individual files occupy a single sequential set of disk blocks, and all the free space on the disk is collected together in a single region. This generally means that reading a whole file is faster, and disk accesses in general are more efficient. |