On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 16:30, Chris Jones wrote: > As a long-time user of various Windoze "distro's" (from win3.11 all the > way to Win2k), I have come to recognise that one needs to regularly > de-frag hard-disks under windoze. > > My question is:- > Is linux susceptible to fragmentation? > > If so, then what tool is best to cure it, and keep it cured? You'll find that Linux filesystems don't fragment anywhere near as much as the Windows filesystems. Case in point: my crappy little Dell XPS M200s is 1.5% fragmented, and it's on 24x7 (since it's my multimedia, network storage and print server). My laptop's boot and root partitions (simple, default partition setup) are 0% and 2% fragmented. It's been running RH9 and was recently upgraded to FC1. If things do get out of hand in some way and your filesystems do start to fragment more than, say, 10%, you can simply copy everything out of the affected filesystem, and copy the data back. That should eliminate the fragmentation. However, I think you'll find fragmentation is going to be non-existent. HTH, Kanwar Systems Aligned Inc. www.systemsaligned.com
