-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gavin McCullagh Sent: Mon 3/3/2008 9:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Linux apps vs Windows apps (was Stripped-Down 7.04) Hi,
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008, Kemp, Levi wrote: > I've never even considered this since I started using Linux, but as far > as installing apps goes since they obviously don't slow the system down > unless in use what about defragmentation. The filesystems generally used on Linux don't usually suffer from fragmentation. > I realize the file system is different, and I read that it is a journal > file system. Does that mean it organizes itself to prevent fragmentation, Journaling means before writing changes to the filesystem, it writes them to a journal in order that the if a power failure or other interruption occurred mid-write, the server would be able to get the filesystem back into a clean state, without doing an fsck (unix-speak for chkdsk) and possibly losing data. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3 This isn't really directly relevant to the fragmentation issue though. > or am I missing a needed bit of maintenance? A bit off topic I know but > you spurred my mind this morning. In general, there's little need for defragmenting on linux: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/filesystems.html#FRAGMENTATION Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users Thanks, that's good to know. Levi
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