Don't worry about it. Fragmentation doesn't really have any effect on 
linux filesystems. There are tools out there that can defragment your 
filesystem, but I wouldn't test them out on production data :-P

I know, it takes a while to get used to not having to care about 
fragmentation anymore, but now I love it!

Hussam Al-Tayeb 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.

I've never experienced any problems with heavily fragmented disks on 
windows (besides the performance problems)?

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