The Ext2 filesystem TRIES to avoid fragmentation by putting files in one
place, if it can. NTFS also does this. This works fine until the file
system starts to get full, and then fragmentation occurs.
Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Gardiner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 8:51 PM
To: Andrew Wendt
Cc: Conor Daly; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Disk utilities under Linux
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:05:58PM -0400, Andrew Wendt wrote:
> I don't think fsck really does anything to combat fragmentation does it?
>
> I think it just checks for and repairs filesystem damage, like Scandisk
does.
Yeah, I was under the impression that it's actually the ext2 filesystem
that either avoids fragmentation, or is designed in uch a way that
fragmentation doesn't translate to a speed loss, in the way it does for
windows.
<checks>
Judging from the man page fsck does only check for filesystem damage.
Mary.
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