Daniel Iliev wrote:
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
Now I remember why I stopped using prelink:
"The only maintenance required is re-running prelink every time a
library is upgraded for a pre-linked executable."
I knew there was a reason I stopped. I never could remember to run it
after I finished emerging stuff.
It was a thought tho.
Dale
:-) :-)
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