On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:01:16 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > > Hello > > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:06:43AM -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >> My questions; is this badly fragmented? How can I "unfragment" > >> all the files and not bork something up badly? > >> My opinion on this tho, considering this install is about 4 years > >> old, not to bad. I've seen worse on a windoze rig shortly after a > >> install. ;-) > > > > I would guess the fragmented files are the big ones. And, with > > average of 2 fragments per file, it is not too much. If you have a > > movie with 30MB fragments, then it is no problem. > > > > Unless you hear lot of rattling noise from the HDD, you could leave > > it as is. > > > > And the surest way to defragment a filesystem is take everything > > out and put it back again. It will write the files one after > > another and will have no reason to split them. > > > > > > So if for example I copied everything over to a different hard drive > and then copied everything back, it would be "defragmented" then? > > I would think of something like this: > > Boot some live CD. > Mount old and backup drives. > Copy old drive to a backup drive using cp -av yada yada. > Make a new file system on the old drive to make sure all is clean. > Copy everything back over from the backup to the old drive using cp > -av yada yada. > > I would also take the opportunity to redo a few partitions while I > was able to. > > The biggest slow down by the way is when logging into KDE the first > time. It takes a long while and that drive is just a getting it. > The light just stays on while loading everything up. > > Your thoughts and others if needed. > > Dale > > :-) :-) :-)
If you haven't already done this, you could try [1] for faster KDE boot. I believe it'll bring you much bigger application start-up boost than defragmenting your FS. Please, notice that I'm not saying that defragmentation is pointless. Just the opposite: I believe fragmentation leads to a perceivable (and actually measurable) performance hit. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml -- Best regards, Daniel -- [email protected] mailing list
