On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 09:45, Douglas Furlong wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 09:25 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > > 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? > I don't know if there IS a defragmenter for linux, I know man -k doesn't > provide any new information for defrag or any thing similar. > > EXT3 (essentially EXT2 for this purpose) deals with fragmentation is a > much smarter way then NTFS and FAT, but if you leave no space on your > disks there isn't THAT much it can do. > > Can you not try and free up space? I have plenty of space left on the partition (15GB or so out of 30GB) but I noticed that Evolution takes a while (a couple seconds I mean it's not a huge difference, but I am noticing it) and began to wonder if a defrag would help. As I said in another post, I'm beginning to dig into linux file systems a bit deeper and it was beginning to nag me that I didn't know something. I hate that. Thanks for all the help. > > -- > Douglas Furlong > Systems Administrator > Firebox.com > T: 0870 420 4475 F: 0870 220 2178 -------------------------------------- Mark Haney Network Administrator InterAct Public Safety Systems mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 09:53:03 up 2:11, 2 users, load average: 9.02, 8.74, 7.88
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