On Friday 28 November 2008 20:24:38 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote: > >> If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it? > > > > By not defragging it. > > > > It's not Windows. Windows boxes needs defragging not because > > fragmentation is a huge problem in itself, but because windows > > filesystems are a steaming mess of [EMAIL PROTECTED] that do little right > > and most > > things wrong. Defrag treats the symptom, not the cause :-) > > I don't buy into that argument and never did. Every few months I copy > the whole HD to another one and then back to counter fragmentation > (ext3) and the system becomes noticeably faster after doing it (speed > increase in emerge --sync for example.) Maybe it's not fragmentation > but rather related files being more closely together after I do this.
Only a proper analysis of your files will tell you this. It's easy enough to check for individual file fragmentation and get stats on that before you do the copy-off/copy-back. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
