On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote: > If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it?
By not defragging it. It's not Windows. Windows boxes needs defragging not because fragmentation is a huge problem in itself, but because windows filesystems are a steaming mess of [EMAIL PROTECTED] that do little right and most things wrong. Defrag treats the symptom, not the cause :-) Reiser tends to self-balance itself out. What is especially noteworthy is that none of the general purpose Linux filesystems provide a defrag utility. Theodore 'Tso and Hans Reiser are both exceptional programmers, if there was a need for such a tool they would assuredly have written one. They did not, so there probably isn't. Any Linux defrag tool you encounter will have been written by a third party separate from the developers. It will move blocks around and update superblocks, the drive will have to be unmounted for that to work and a slight misunderstanding of how to do it will ruin data. Are you willing to take the very real risk of data corruption? > Is > there a best way? I do have a second hard drive that I back up too. > Both Drives are 80Gbs and I do have a set of DVD back ups as well. I > can update those pretty quick. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
