At 2004-02-23 01:42:47 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Anyway, no; fdisk has nothing to do with defragmentation [...] > > well....could you clarify to me...what disk defragmentation is?
Fragmentation is a filesystem-level phenomenon (while partitions could be called a disk-level one, I guess) where, due to files being created and deleted over time, unused blocks are scattered in between occupied ones, and newly-created files are thus stored in non-contiguous blocks on the disk. This may lead to performance problems in usage scenarios where a large (and fragmented) file must be read into memory sequentially because of the extra seeking to and fro that's involved to fetch the next block. Defragmentation seeks (heh heh) to remedy the situation by writing out each file into a contiguous set of blocks. > The little you did leave is like Dutch to me. Did you ask Google? -- ams _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
