On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:14:35AM -0700, Jeff Coppock wrote: > I was wondering if it's necessary to defragment ext2fs or reiserfs? I do > this on a regular basis with my Windoze machines. > > What utilities could be used for this, if it's recommended?
ext2 is smart, and does a good job of not fragmenting files. search the web, lots of good info is out there. Reiserfs is also smart like that. (BTW, it's the allocation algorithms in particular that are smart. They put new files where they will have room to grow without fragmenting.) If you have an almost-full filesystem, there won't be room to avoid fragmentation, so you should avoid that. ext2 is most efficient when less than 90% full, or so. (I don't know what a good cutoff value should be, but 90% is probably reasonable.) There is an ext2defrag or something around, so you can use that if you want to. Most people never defrag their FSes, and have no problems with them. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
