Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: My memory is rusty | Date | Sun, 19 Apr 1998 11:49:44 -0500 (CDT) | From | kwrohrer@enteract ... |
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And lo, Alistair Riddell saith unto me: > On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Gerhard Mack wrote: > > That reminds me, anyone know of a disk defragmenter for linux ? > ftp://linux.dcs.ed.ac.uk/pub/linux/defrag > > I'm not sure there is much to be gained from defragmenting ext2 > filesystems though. Depends on your filesystem. e2fsck tells you how fragmented it is (when it actually does the check), and if you do a lot of stuff when the filesystem is nearly full, the e2fs algorithms can't fight off the fragmentation effectively.
Keith
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