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.


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