On Sam, 03 Apr 1999, you wrote: / Am Sam, 03 Apr 1999 schrieben Sie:
> Hi all.
>
> [snip]
> Reason I'm asking is that, other than being a tidy guy that organizes on a
> regular basis, I also have my install on a 450 meg hard drive - not that I
> don't have access to about 6 gigs in other mount points, but you get the
> point.
>
> Any suggestions on how I can freshen up my installation, short of starting
> from scratch? Also, I know that, by nature, ext2 is efficient, but is there
> a defrag program out there?
>
Hi Paul!
from the Partition-mini-HowTo:
"ext2 has several strategies to avoid external fragmentation. Normally
fragmentation is not a large problem in ext2, not even on heavily used
partitions such as a USENET news spool. While there is a tool for
defragmentation of ext2 file systems, nobody ever uses it and it is not up
to date with the current release of ext2. Use it, but do so on your own
risk."
Unfortunately the author didn't care to name this tool, but it doesn't
sound that safe anyway...
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Paul
>
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