On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:40 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [09-08-03 23:09]:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
also read that it can happen
Paul Hartman wrote:
No. :) There's no documentation really. The source cide is funny,
everything is named after law, investigations, accused, trials and
judgments. :) There best I can do is reproduce the part of the source
that shows this info and hope you can infer from the names what they
Oh, and you're utilizing SMART, right?
Should I be doing more than running this test:
smartctl -t long /dev/sda
[...]
Does this indicate everything is OK as far as SMART can tell?
Num Test_Description Status Remaining
LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1
Grant writes:
Oh, and you're utilizing SMART, right?
Should I be doing more than running this test:
smartctl -t long /dev/sda
[...]
Does this indicate everything is OK as far as SMART can tell?
Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining
LifeTime(hours)
I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that
ext4 will have a defragmenter but that it doesn't have one yet.
It's not that they aren't supposed to become fragmented, it is that
they try to avoid
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com [09-08-07 17:40]:
I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that
ext4 will have a defragmenter but that it doesn't have one yet.
It's not that they aren't supposed to
It never
made a sound before, but now there's a rhythmic grinding sound when
miro is running, maybe because the HD is more full now.
In my experience, the rate of change of hard drive access volume is
inversely proportional with the drive's lifetime. The faster it
gets louder, the
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [09-08-03 23:09]:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that
ext4 will have a
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:42:24 -0700
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
It never
made a sound before, but now there's a rhythmic grinding sound when
miro is running, maybe because the HD is more full now.
In my experience, the rate of change of hard drive access volume is
inversely
Am Montag 03 August 2009 22:51:58 schrieb Thierry de Coulon:
Anyway, I would not use such a full partition for / or /home. When it
happend I moved /usr to another partition.
Hmm, I simply extend the logical volume.
Bye...
Dirk
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Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [09-08-03 23:09]:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that
ext4 will have a
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 11:26:26 -0700
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, that's when I'm hearing the HD access I didn't hear before.
I run miro and it's downloading several torrents all the time.
It never made a sound before, but now there's a rhythmic grinding
sound when miro is
On 7 Aug 2009, at 04:56, Mike Kazantsev wrote:
...
Note that this problem can also be (easily?) solved on software
level by
pre-allocating files (like dd if=/dev/zero of=file).
Sure, that won't make writes sequential, but that should guarantee
that
resulting file would be as
It never
made a sound before, but now there's a rhythmic grinding sound when
miro is running, maybe because the HD is more full now.
In my experience, the rate of change of hard drive access volume is
inversely proportional with the drive's lifetime. The faster it gets
louder, the sooner
I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that
ext4 will have a defragmenter but that it doesn't have one yet.
It's not that they aren't supposed to become fragmented, it is that
they try to avoid it.
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:48:06 -0700
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
It never
made a sound before, but now there's a rhythmic grinding sound when
miro is running, maybe because the HD is more full now.
In my experience, the rate of change of hard drive access volume is
inversely proportional
My HD is getting noisier during access and I wonder if it's a
fragmentation issue. I have:
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3960872076 754795944 157266648 83% /
I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
also
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 13:22 -0700, Grant wrote:
My HD is getting noisier during access and I wonder if it's a
fragmentation issue.
Are you sure it's not a HD-about-to-die issue?
-a
On Monday 03 August 2009, Grant wrote:
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3960872076 754795944 157266648 83% /
The partition is fairly full, probably the system has a hard time finding a
spot to create an unfragmented file. I remember
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that
ext4 will have a defragmenter but that it doesn't have one yet.
It's not that they aren't
On Monday 03 August 2009 22:51:58 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Monday 03 August 2009, Grant wrote:
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3960872076 754795944 157266648 83% /
The partition is fairly full, probably the system has a hard
On Monday 03 August 2009 23:05:02 Paul Hartman wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that
ext4 will have a defragmenter but
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone tried the shake defragmenter?
Yes, nothing has blown up yet. :)
I used it a while back but couldn't really see a whole lot of
I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that
ext4 will have a defragmenter but that it doesn't have one yet.
It's not that they aren't supposed to become fragmented, it is that
they try to avoid it.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that
ext4 will have a defragmenter but that it doesn't have one yet.
It's not that they aren't
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