Chris Jones wrote:
My question is:-
Is linux susceptible to fragmentation?
If so, then what tool is best to cure it, and keep it cured?
Every filesystem is subject to fragmentation. On linux (using ext2/3 ,
xfs , jfs) , the filesystem is smart enough to keep fragmentation to a
minimum level. Unlike windows/dos , you dont need to worry about this.
If you reboot your system very often , it will sometimes check the
integrity of the disk and that's all you'll see about disk maintenance
in normal linux usage (you can run fsck to check your disks , but be
sure not to run it on mounted filesystems. this is done automatically at
boot time after a certain time period or a certain number of mounts).
--
Pedro Macedo
