On Tuesday 14 August 2001 10:22, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:48, Jason Guidry wrote: > > I'm always discovering holes in my linux education, and the thread on > > fsck made me think of defragmenting hard drives. is there a linux eq? > > what are the issues with data optimization/disk defragging under linux? > > None. > > Only poorly-designed filesystems become fragmented to the point of > requiring an external defragmenter. The level of fragmentation in GNU/Linux > filesystems is near nil (I don't think ReiserFS has any fragmentation at > all). > > While I'm here, how susceptible to fragmentation is NTFS5 (the NTFS in > Win2000)? Does it need to be defragged often? I've been using Win2000 for about eight months and it's no different defrag-wise. I bet if you looked at it close enough, NTFS is just FAT32 with some security measures thrown in-- Remember Microsoft *innovates*, it doesn't invent. Richie Also, can it journal like > ReiserFS, Ext3 and JFS? ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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