On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 17:30, M3 Freak wrote: > 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 You know what? It's been so long since I even thought of de-fragging under Linux, that I have even forgotten how to check for it. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
