Probably not. I think it just means 23% of your files will take mofe
than 1 seek to read, and since big files often don't get read in one
gulp anyway, it probably doesn't make much difference. Libraries, for
instance, are just mapped into virtual memory, and pages are read as
they are used. I just ran e2defrag on my devil's playground partition
(stuff I don't have room for on /usr/src, and windows apps I run with
Wine). It was 11% fragmented; now presumably 0%. It seems a
little faster now, but not all that much. Of more concern, perhaps, to
fragment an ext2 filesystem, you must fill it so much that it doesn't
have room to put files where it wants them, and has to dig for space.
You might want to get more space, or [tar][gzip] things you don't use
often, or remove things you don't need.
To defrag /, you must boot up a system with a different /. If you have
a spare partition, you can install a minimal system on it including
e2defrag, boot it, and defrag your main partition. Or you can make a
custom rescue floppy including e2defrag, and do the same. You should
back up anything you care about first. Of course, if you have the
wherewithal to back it up, backup, delete, restore will also defragment
fairly well.
Lawson
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On 22 May 1999, David Erdman wrote:
> hi. my main partition, is 23% non-contig. Is this serious enough to
warrant
> action. What action you recommend? thanks
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