[CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux
Feizhou
feizhou at graffiti.net
Fri Sep 21 02:03:36 UTC 2007
Al Sparks wrote:
>> Al Sparks wrote:
>>> A couple of questions. Are there any linux tools that can de-frag an
>>> ext2/3 partition?
ext2, yes. ext3, no. And it is called a filesystem. A partition is a
completely different thing. none for ext3 because it was not really
necessary for ext2 and so the tool never got updated.
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> Why? What's different between NTFS and ext2/3 that defragging is
> needed in one but not the other?
Implementation and design?
More information about the CentOS
mailing list