On Friday 12 September 2003 09:28 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Friday 12 September 2003 07:54 pm, Chris wrote: > > Thanks for all the replies everybody. I 'assume' then that when > > shredding file(s) that there is no fragmentation such as there is in > > the windows os and that the freed space can/is immediately available to > > be written to? > > Chris: > Unless you are using either JFS or XFS (sorry, I can't remember which), > forget about defragging; it is not an issue in Linux. Should you run the > appropriate fsck for your filesystem, it will probably report something > on the order of 3% fragmentation. Ignore it. Run it a month from now and > you'll get a similar result. We never said Linux is perfect, just that > it's pretty damn good. -- cmg
Oh, I'm not worried about defragging, I got rid of that problem a long time ago :) I just really wanted to make sure that 'shredding' a file(s) would not somehow or another mess the system up and not somehow take away available space. Thanks to all who answered this simple sounding question. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:31pm up 4 days, 36 min, 4 users, load average: 0.09, 0.37, 0.39
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