[Tfug] Defragging *nix

[Ronald Sutherland]

I think there was a post a while back on fragmenting ... looking... looking
... ah this was the one...

http://www.tfug.org/pipermail/tfug_tfug.org/2007-September/016152.html

some good stuff, I wonder if the next fragmentation post 6 weeks from now
will link this post :-/


On 10/28/07, Jeffry Johnston <tfug at kidsquid.com> wrote:
>
> Are you sure?  If files aren't stored contiguously, then there should be a
> chance for fragmentation.  If they are stored contiguously then there can
> be
> situations where you really did have enough free spaces on the disk for a
> file but can't store it because there isn't a big enough contiguous area.
>
> Jeff
>
> On 10/27/07, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Some file systems need it - JFS I think?  The Ext3 and ReiserFS that
> > most people use, don't.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On 10/27/07, Earl <earljviolet at juno.com> wrote:
> > > I noticed a disk defragmenting program in the Ubuntu repositories that
> > set me to wondering, "Has anyone used such a thing?  Under what
> > circumstances?"
> > >
> > > Earl
>
>