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Started by griffenjam Aug 14, 2002 at 11:43 AM 3 replies 400+ views

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Aug 14, 2002 at 11:43 AM

I have been using Linux for a few years now and I just happened to think, do Linux drives need to be defragmented? I''ve never even heard defrag mentioned in conjunction with linux, so do I need to? If so how? Jason Mickela ICQ : 873518 Excuse my speling. The V-Town Have-Nots

C-Junkie

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C-Junkie

Aug 14, 2002 at 12:06 PM

All filesystems get fragmented

ext2fs supposedly is fragmentation-resistant, but if it starts to need it... (fsck shows fragmentation percentages... though mine never have gone above 1%)

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/
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http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html

btw, have you ever heard of google?

Strife

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Strife

Aug 14, 2002 at 1:00 PM

The way ext2/3 and most other unix filesystems are designed, fragmentation is kept at an absolute minimum, and unless you use the same drive for years without EVER reformatting, you probably won''t ever really need to defrag it. Yet another beauty of *nix over windows.

griffenjam

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griffenjam

Aug 15, 2002 at 12:16 AM

quote:
Original post by C-Junkie
All filesystems get fragmented

ext2fs supposedly is fragmentation-resistant, but if it starts to need it... (fsck shows fragmentation percentages... though mine never have gone above 1%)

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/
-or-
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2.html

btw, have you ever heard of google?

Jason Mickela
ICQ : 873518
Excuse my speling.

The V-Town Have-Nots

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