On Mon May 04 1998, "Dar o Mariani" wrote:
> Tony Nugent wrote:
> > One very good word of advice... don't bother defragmenting your ext2
> > filesystems... let them sort themselves out.
> >
> > > If yes, which utility should have ?
> >
> > There are "defragmenters" around the place, but don't bother with them.
> >
> > Messing about with ext2 filesystems at this low level is just asking for
> > trouble in the long run. It's a very efficient filesystem anyway.
> Mmmm, I do not disagree, but could you point me to documentation where I
> can verify these statments?
There is (was) some documentation about how the extended-2 filesystem
works... yes, it's still on sunsite:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2/
Ext2fs-overview-0.1.ps.gz
Dated August'95, but still full of some good stuff.
There's also a bunch of docs in the e2fsprogs package itself, also to be
found in the same directory:
e2fsprogs-1.06.tar.gz
> I heard a lot about ext2 fs being efficient and that the world will end
> in the year 2000, but nobody demostrates its veracity :-)
This lot should convince you that ext2 is the best thing since brown bread
:-)
> Don�t get mad at me, my problem is that I overdeveloped my scientific
> way of thinking.
Hey, no problemo!
Cheers
Tony .
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