On Sunday May 22 2005 2:55 am, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Adam Fabian wrote: > >On 5/20/05, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc@ruralcomm.com> wrote: > >>more than 5 months old and has never been defragged but I'm still > >> very much a newbie. > > > >It's very unlikely that your filesystem needs defragmenting after > > 5 months. As other have already noted, ext3 isn't prone to > > fragmentation. I wasn't even aware there was an ext2 > > defragmenting utility, though. The traditional solution would be > > to use dump/restore. > > Ahhhh! That sounds like something that will read the hard drive and > write back each file to the drive in a > contiguous manner removing lost drive space something akin to MS > defrag. Am I correct in my assumption? Not really, since Linux doesn't put things down in a contiguous manner, as I understand it. -- Paul Johnson Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): baloo@ursine.ca http://ursine.ca/~baloo/
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