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-matt :)
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>Alan,
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>I won't argue with you on ext2. You probably know that a lot better than
>me.
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>OTOH, OS/2 Warp uses HPFS, which was also said (by Microsoft !-) to keep
>defragmentation low and shouldn't need any defragmentation. Experience
>showed, though, that defragging an HPFS partition *could* make a
>difference. Primarily on partitions with static (or almost static) data
>residing on them.
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>Defraggers were made and they proved a performance gain. Not that you
>felt the difference in the keyboard, but for disk intensive apps it was
>measurable.
>
>Just a thought.
>Gustav
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>Alan Mead wrote:
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>> At 01:18 PM 1/4/00 -0600, Joseph Wagner wrote:
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>> >How do I defragment these partitions?
>>
>> I didn't see any replies so I'll throw this in and someone can correct me
>> if I'm wrong: I've never seen a defrag for Linux and my understanding was
>> that ext2 didn't need it. I would hazard a guess that this means it
>> automatically keep fragmentation low.
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