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James Keasley wrote: | "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. |
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