On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> if i have to download it from freshmeat, does it mean that no utlitily
> is included in standard linux distros to defrag the harddisk?
AFAIK, no.
> what is the concept of working without defragging?
The concept is that the file system will take care of most of the
fragmentation by itself in a somewhat intelligent way.
The user need not bother about fragmentation/other problems due to a
file system.
ext2 will have major fragmentation problems after it is over 90 - 95%
full, but by this time you should be needing more disk space anyway.
> at what % of non-contiguousness of drive space, should i
> get alarmed, and then what should i do, if defragging is not the
> standard linux way.
Well, what I do is free some space on the fragmented partition, or
sometimes just move data from one partition to another and back. This
seems to clean up the mess somewhat.
Get alarmed when the your partition gets filled up, not otherwise.
Devdas Bhagat
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Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
-- St. Augustine
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