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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 "Jeremy Pearson" <jeremypearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Coming from a Windows environment I'm used to performing regular defragmentation on FAT32 and NTFS partitions. Do I need to defragment EXT2 partitions in the same way? And if so, which tools do people use?
Ext2 (and Ext3, reiserfs etc) don't actually ever need to be defragmented, as when they were designed someone actually thought about it, and used a worst fit algorithm, so that files didn't get split up and spread across non-consecutive disk-sectors as often as they do in windows. They do, occasionally need to be checked for integrity, usually after an unclean shutdown, using fsck. The dicks have to be unmounted for this, so you can't access the filesystem while it is being checked. - -- James jamesk[at]homeric[dot]co[dot]uk "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." - - Sharon Stone -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD4DBQFCXUqzqfSmHkD6LvoRAj3zAJoDyJ4ecIzZ+7vcVEuUizUyrUHHegCTBPs4 GUvy/cgIe5huNR4i9haHpw== =X92p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html