Re: disk defragmenting

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: disk defragmenting
From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:21:12 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] 87mzymbbqv.fsf@ursine.dyndns.org>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 4171429E.4090504@techhouse.org> (Travis Crump's message of "Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:47:42 -0400")
References: <[🔎] 195078C536DA9D489A30B309580DFCC13D5761@doimail.optronics.co.za> <[🔎] 871xfzw4dg.fsf@ursine.dyndns.org> <[🔎] 4171429E.4090504@techhouse.org>

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Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org> writes:

> Does that imply that the partition is fragmented or not?  Though
> frankly I don't really care that much if it is.

Fragmentation increases as the filesystem approaches extremely full.
You're not going to be able to defrag a really full filesystem no
matter what filesystem you're using, the ultimate fix is a larger disk
in such cases.
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  - From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
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