On 30 Jun 00, at 21:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> is included in standard linux distros to defrag the harddisk?
Not any distribution that i know of bundles this.
> what is the concept of working without defragging?
The point is how efficiently your data is accessed from your hdd. The
native Linux FF accesses data and organises it pretty well, even if
you are in the habit of deleting huge chunks from the drive. Most
partitions will not be affected except, /tmp, /opt, /usr/local and
/home. And it will not lead to significant speedups as is the case
with FAT format.
If you want to increase drive performance, you have hdparm to
increase the disk access more than 100%. Add the relevant hdparm line
to the startup script and you'll see what I mean.
> 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.
Defrag is more relevant in FAT format, you must appreciate that MS
does not have a NTFS defragger(not that I know of). At the institute
where I studied, we had 2 NT servers with 80 and 93 % non-contiguous,
and they handled everything:]
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