At 03:35 PM 10/1/02 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: >Can you defrag a Linux drive
There is a Linux program called "defrag" that works with ext2 filesystems. I don't know if it works with the newer filesystems, like ext3 and reiserfs. >I think the partition is ext3. Do they need >deframenting? People disagree about this, but the conventional answer is NO (exclusing unusual circumstances). In practice, I don't ever defrag my ext2 filesystems, and I don't see the kinds of performance deterioration you (or I, anyway) typically see on old Windows systems. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
