Hi,
I notice that fsck (e2fsck) also reports the percentage of
disk-fragmentation (non-contiguous blabla). This set me to wondering.
On DOS and Windows, applications exist that let you defragment the disk,
effectively placing sectors that contain fragments of the same file in
sequence together and/or moving files to the front of the disk. DEFRAG.EXE
springs to mind.
On Acorn ARM-machines (running ADFS) the filing-system automatically takes
care to prevent file-fragmentations and the command *compact can be used to
manually force this defragmentation.
On Linux I'm not really aware of how the disk-fragmentation is
counter-acted. Is the defragmentation built into the FS? What do others use?
I've seen an application called defrag-someversion. I've had it installed
aswell. But the docs say that I should not use it on a mounted partition :-\
How do you then defrag the partition that the binary is on? As I only have
two partitions (one for /boot and one for the rest) I uninstalled the app
again because the binary will always be on the partition I want to
defragment and the docs say that shouldn't be mounted... (Isn't that what is
called a Catch-22 ?)
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