21 Sep
2007
21 Sep
'07
3:38 a.m.
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.