On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:50:52PM +0200, Frodo Baggins wrote: > Jon Hughes scripsit: > >What sort of Disk Defragmenters are there out there > >for debian? I have located one called 'defrag', but > >it requires me to unmount the hard drives, which is > >something I would (if possible) like to avoid, if it's > >just cause I'm lazy:b Can anyone recommend anything > >else, or is this the only possible solution? > > Hi, > AFAIK, there is no need for defragmenter in Linux:)))
Not strictly true, but for small values of universality, a good rule. My question -- is the level of fragmantation the "noncontiguous files" reported by e2fsck? AFAIK, so long as this is small, say < 5% or so, performance isn't grossly effected. ext2fs _does_ tend to *minimize* fragmentation. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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