There is no need to defrag ext3 systems. It handles files more efficiently than NTFS or FAT32. There are tools to defrag, but fragmentation is usually never enough to affect disk performance on ext3. Welcome to Linux, we do things smarter and better here.
Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:40, harryos <[email protected]> wrote: > hi guys > Previously im my windows machine I used to defragment the hard disk > once in a while. Then I installed ubuntu and am wondering how to do > the defragmentation in linux..I have been downloading some movies and > copying them to DVDs because of which I am afraid there may be junk > files in the system.Can someone tell me how to do the cleanup and > defragmentation ? > harry > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
