Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-14 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Thu, 08 Sep: > On 9/8/05, Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The short answer: > > Just in case someone can answer a quick "yes" or "no": > BSD 4.2's filesystem used to move blocks around as files > grew in order to keep them together, does ext2

Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 9/8/05, Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The short answer: Just in case someone can answer a quick "yes" or "no": BSD 4.2's filesystem used to move blocks around as files grew in order to keep them together, does ext2 (or any other Linux filesystem, to that matter) also use such te

Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-08 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Moshe Akirav wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Moshe Akirav wrote: Hi all, I was wondering why don't I need to defragment my disk, Everyone says it is not necessary, Does anyone know the reason ? There is no reason. Fragmentation can and will occur. It's true that due to file system design (

Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-08 Thread Moshe Akirav
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Moshe Akirav wrote: Hi all, I was wondering why don't I need to defragment my disk, Everyone says it is not necessary, Does anyone know the reason ? There is no reason. Fragmentation can and will occur. It's true that due to file system design (I'm specifically rela

Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-08 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Moshe Akirav wrote: Hi all, I was wondering why don't I need to defragment my disk, Everyone says it is not necessary, Does anyone know the reason ? There is no reason. Fragmentation can and will occur. It's true that due to file system design (I'm specifically relating to ext3/2 here) fragm

disk defragmentation

2005-09-08 Thread Moshe Akirav
Hi all, I was wondering why don't I need to defragment my disk, Everyone says it is not necessary, Does anyone know the reason ? 10x, Moshe. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message