Re: disk defragmenting
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:23:58 -0700, Mike Chandler
<mailmanmike@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Friday 15 October 2004 07:31 am, robin wrote:
>
>
> > Mike Chandler wrote:
> > >On Friday 15 October 2004 06:49 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > >>Hello,
> > >>Is there any defragmenting tool in any distro, and if not why? Thanks!!!
> > >
> > >Nope, not needed.
> >
> > There are lots of hits on google for this one being:
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-admin/msg00513.html
> > 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.
> Ok, you're right and I am wrong.
> I've never heard of that, never had the need for it, and don't run ext2
> anyway.
> The last I heard (some time ago) was Linux didn't need defrag, so never
> thought about it again. Must have gotten some bad information?
You didn't get bad info. 99% of the time you won't need defrag on a
Unix-based system that uses inodes (which is almost every Unix-based
native filesystem out there).
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Paolo Alexis Falcone
pfalcone@gmail.com
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