For starters, I've neither had problems with fragmentation on either Windows or Linux, but my placebo tells me that I've had even less problems in linux... :-)
Are you sure this is a problem with the filesystem?
Old discs usually makes a lot more noices when they are growing old and are about to die.
And a 60 GByte disc...how old is that? 5-6 years?
Oscar
On 4/17/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have hda1 (60gigs) mounted as /home , hdb1 (2gigs) mounted as swap and hdb2
30gigs mounted as /
the last time I reboot 3 days ago, hda1 was 9% fragmented ( probably now even
more )
Is there any safe was of defragging a ext3 partition?
I asked once before I switched to archlinux and somebody suggested I
tar /home, place the tar archive on another PC, format hda and untar /home
there again but that's pretty non practical. Is there a better solution?
Back in the days when I used windows, 9% fragmentation would kill my system
and stop it even from booting properly. Now I don't have that problem on
linux but I would like some info on this.
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