On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, C.J. Oster wrote:
>It's not really a problem, except for speed issues. Defragmenting a
>partition will noticeably increase read and write speeds to that disk, but
>only if you fragmentation is very large.
Actually, it probably won't do all that much unless the fragmentation is
really, really bad. The reason I say this is that Linux, being a multi-tasking
operating system, is often doing far more than just reading that one file, and
that most people put all of Linux, including its swap partition, on the same
disk. The disk head(s), therefore, is/are seeking all over the place quite a
bit of the time, and it's the I/O cache which keeps everything going along at a
quick pace.
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