On 8/23/05, Tim Ruehsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You don't need to. You only need to defragment your disk if your > > operating system is incapable of keeping the fragmentation under > > control, and Linux does not suffer from this problem. > > Many people say so, but it is not true. > > Ext2 takes some precautions to reduce fragmentation a bit (in comparison with > (V)FAT), but ext2 can't prevent it. And it is not a feature of 'Linux' it is > a feature of the filesystem. > > Jiann-Ming Su posted a link, which talks about two possibilities to defragment > your discs: either use defrag (but make a backup before!) or just make a > backup, clean your partitions and restore the backup. > > I did the last thing (after using my system for ~2 years for ~10 hours a day, > making updates every day) and my system booted about 30% faster. Now, after a > year or so, it seems to be time to do it again (booting became slower and > slower).
Does it affect the every day operation of the filesystem, apart from booting ?? I have notice tha know fact that less than 5-10% of free space on HD affects system operation, but simply deleting unneded files up to more than 10% of free space makes my system go to normal operation. I have never done a backup, but I dont usually keep a computer for more than 2-3 years. A hard disk failure, or related thing keep me from keeping instalations for more than that. Max -- Linux garaged 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 #3 SMP Mon Aug 30 12:14:50 CDT 2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GS/S d- s: a-29 C++(+++) ULAHI+++ P+ L++>+++ E--- W++ N* o-- K- w++++ O- M-- V-- PS+ PE Y-- PGP++ t- 5- X+ R tv++ b+ DI+++ D- G++ e++ h+ r+ z** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ gpg-key: http://garaged.homeip.net/gpg-key.txt
