Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-14 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Thu, 08 Sep: On 9/8/05, Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The short answer: Just in case someone can answer a quick yes or no: BSD 4.2's filesystem used to move blocks around as files grew in order to keep them together, does ext2 (or any

disk defragmentation

2005-09-08 Thread Moshe Akirav
Hi all, I was wondering why don't I need to defragment my disk, Everyone says it is not necessary, Does anyone know the reason ? 10x, Moshe. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message

Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-08 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Moshe Akirav wrote: Hi all, I was wondering why don't I need to defragment my disk, Everyone says it is not necessary, Does anyone know the reason ? There is no reason. Fragmentation can and will occur. It's true that due to file system design (I'm specifically relating to ext3/2 here)

Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-08 Thread Moshe Akirav
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Moshe Akirav wrote: Hi all, I was wondering why don't I need to defragment my disk, Everyone says it is not necessary, Does anyone know the reason ? There is no reason. Fragmentation can and will occur. It's true that due to file system design (I'm specifically

Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-08 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Moshe Akirav wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Moshe Akirav wrote: Hi all, I was wondering why don't I need to defragment my disk, Everyone says it is not necessary, Does anyone know the reason ? There is no reason. Fragmentation can and will occur. It's true that due to file system design

Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 9/8/05, Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The short answer: Just in case someone can answer a quick yes or no: BSD 4.2's filesystem used to move blocks around as files grew in order to keep them together, does ext2 (or any other Linux filesystem, to that matter) also use such