On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:48, Jason Guidry wrote:
> I'm always discovering holes in my linux education, and the thread on fsck
> made me think of defragmenting hard drives. is there a linux eq? what are
> the issues with data optimization/disk defragging under linux?
None.
Only poorly-designed filesystems become fragmented to the point of requiring
an external defragmenter. The level of fragmentation in GNU/Linux filesystems
is near nil (I don't think ReiserFS has any fragmentation at all).
While I'm here, how susceptible to fragmentation is NTFS5 (the NTFS in
Win2000)? Does it need to be defragged often? Also, can it journal like
ReiserFS, Ext3 and JFS?
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