Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote:
If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it?
By not defragging it.
It's not Windows. Windows boxes needs defragging not because fragmentation is
a huge problem in itself, but because windows filesystems are a steaming mess
of [EMAIL PROTECTED] that do little right and most things wrong. Defrag treats the
symptom, not the cause :-)
I don't buy into that argument and never did. Every few months I copy
the whole HD to another one and then back to counter fragmentation
(ext3) and the system becomes noticeably faster after doing it (speed
increase in emerge --sync for example.) Maybe it's not fragmentation
but rather related files being more closely together after I do this.
