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#1 2007-01-20 15:27:15
- ezzetabi
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Defrag? Really...
I know usually it is not necessary defrag a ext3 drive since the filesystem smartly collocate files. But today after turning on the computer the regular disk check wrote 41,5% of non continuous files.
It is really too much. So I was wondering how can I force a defrag.
Thanks a lot.
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#2 2007-01-20 15:39:30
- lucke
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Re: Defrag? Really...
Look at defrag and shake in AUR.
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#3 2007-01-21 01:52:18
- wantamad
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Re: Defrag? Really...
there is this ext2 defrag tool but is not really recomended. from what i know, ext3 should take care of fragmentation on its own. a little experiment would be to move files back and forth.
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#4 2007-01-21 05:42:42
- MartinZ
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Re: Defrag? Really...
Yeah, that's what i do when i want to "defrag" a partition for some reason. I think it's much faster and safer than using an app for that (if there exist one). However, i never noticed any change: it doesn't feel faster (even with placebo effect) nor doesn't get more stable... BUT it shows 0% non-contiguous files when fsck-ing it, and that makes me feel happy 
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