Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 2/3/2010 9:29 AM: > No such file in stable, backports, testing, unstable, or experimental. > > I've never heard of such a utility, either.
I think I found what happened to it: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-December/030918.html > It should be noted that fragmentation is less of an issue on ext2/3/4 file > systems than on vfat file systems. Its fragmentation performance in relation to vfat is irrelevant. Read the works of the folks at MIT who wrote EXT2. It *will* fragment over time, just not quite as bad as some other "modern" filesystems. The worst fragmentation scenario is appending large files over time. And guess what I have stored on one of my EXT2 filesystems? Yes, you guessed it, mbox files. I keep all my mail, all list mail, including debian-user, in mbox files (dovecot). They're only a combined 200MB at this point, but they will only continue to grow, and continue to become more fragmented. Thus, I started looking for a defrag tool for EXT2. It appears that Debian removed it from the distro for fear that ppl would use it on EXT3/4 filesystems and corrupt them as e2defrag only works on EXT2. It's apparently not been updated to work with the journals and other data structures of EXT3/4. Luckily I've got a dedicated /home partition where these mbox files are stored. So worst case scenario I can just create a new XFS partition in my unallocated space and move everything over. XFS has a non-destructive online defragger, and it's a superior filesystem to EXT2/3/4, Resiser, and JFS anyway. ;) Matter of fact XFS has some really nice management tools, light years ahead of EXT2/3/4 and Reiser. I love having so many good choices available to solve a (potential) problem. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
