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 Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -----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. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos