On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 09:14, Douglas Furlong wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 09:08 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > > What's the story with ext3 file fragmentation? > >From what I can tell of previous conversations, the fragmentation is > heavily dependant on free disk space. > > The less space available to the kernel when storing data, the higher the > level of fragmentation. > > You can use filefrag to work out how fragmented a file is, which is > handy for large files, no so handy for lots and lots of small files. > > May be not what you were after, but I hope it helps a bit. > > -- > Douglas Furlong Yeah, it's a start. I pretty much figured it was going to be the same story as any other file system. I push my systems hard. And I have lots of small files which doesn't really help. Now, can anyone tell me if a defragmenter would help for ext3? Or not? It helps a ton with NTFS, but would the same thing happen to a linux fs? -------------------------------------- Mark Haney Network Administrator InterAct Public Safety Systems mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 09:23:14 up 1:41, 2 users, load average: 6.26, 5.64, 5.17
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