[CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux
gjgowey at tmo.blackberry.net
gjgowey at tmo.blackberry.net
Fri Sep 21 02:03:52 UTC 2007
That or run buzzsaw (win) which is a continuous defragmenter (well, when the system is idle that is) that runs in the background and only costs $10. Pagedefrag from sysinternals doesn't hurt either (and it's free off ms' website). And no, I'm not affiliated with either I just like the products.
Geoff
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-----Original Message-----
From: John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:38:40
To:CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux
>> 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?
>
IMHO, defragging is highly overrated in NTFS too. it was the old
FAT/FAT32 file system that suffered from horrible performance when
heavily fragmented.
that said, the best way to defrag a file system is to dump it to
external media, delete then recreate the file system and restore the dump.
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