Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?
Defragging on a Linux system is generally unnecessary; therefore there's
no utility for the task.
Wrong. (About no utility)
From http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Partition.html#FRAGMENTATION:
None of these habits should be carried over to Linux and ext2. Linux native
file systems do not need defragmentation under normal use and this includes
any condition with at least 5% of free space on a disk. There is a
defragmentation tool for ext2 called defrag, but users are cautioned against
casual use. A power outage during such an operation can trash your file
system. Since you need to back up your data anyway, simply writing back from
your copy will do the job.
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