[CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

Mark Weaver mdw1982 at mdw1982.com
Thu Sep 20 23:23:21 UTC 2007


Al Sparks wrote:
> A couple of questions.  Are there any linux tools that can de-frag an
> ext2/3 partition?
> 
> Are there any advantages to doing so if you're running hardware RAID5?
> 
> Are there advantages / disadvantages if you're running LVM?
>    === Al

you're in luck cause you don't defrag an ext2/3 partition at all. defrag 
is for windows file systems. Ext file systems are a different animal 
all-together.

-- 
Mark

"If you have found a very wise man, then you've found
a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough
to learn from his own stupidity."
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