Okay, on this topic..
I've heard a number of people say that of course some fragmentation
occurs but not really enough to worry about. So.. I have a system with
100% uptime that was up for about 4 months before I moved. After moving
and starting back up, my /usr partition had 18% fragmentation
"jp" == jp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
jp I've got a system that's got a /var/spool/mail partition which
jp has been there for about two years and is at 60%
jp fragmentation. Seems to work ok, but why it works ok is
jp incomprehensible to me.
Presumably because even though 60% of the
Defragmentation utility for ext2 partition does exist. It is called
'defrag' :-). The latest version I know is defrag-0.73-2.
But be VERY careful with it. If smth goes wrong with your system when this
utility is working over some partition, this partition may be lost
completely and you'll have
From: "George Lenzer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. Does Linux have/need a defragmenting program? I looked around on the net
and found some indications that as long as 10% of the file system is free, ext2
doesn't need defragmenting? Is that true? I noticed that my system mentions
The file
