Re: Disk fragmentation

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:01:39PM +0100, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> 	In an unmounted filesystem, you can just use e2fsck. As to the
> unfragmenting bit, Extended FS 2 takes care of that. My root partition
> shown a 0.5% fragmentation, so... I don't think you'll get any software
> doing it better than that! :)
	
	Actually, and after reading through some threads stored
somewhere, there *ARE* tools for defragmenting ext2 filesystems (aptly
called defrag :D). They claim improvements in performance, but as far as
I can tell, I think it's more an experimental past time than anything
worth doing. I use large binary sequential files, and I haven't seen a
loss of speed since I had a clean, rosy-cheeked FS up to now :)

	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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