Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-23 Thread Feizhou
Mark Weaver wrote: umair shakil wrote: Dear Salam, Well i have used the command on shell "updatedb" it will allow you to make fast searching. Regards, Umair Shakil ETD um... what? Peace, peace. He appears to have read between the lines and come to conclusion the OP was trying to impr

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-22 Thread Peter Arremann
On Saturday 22 September 2007, umair shakil wrote: > Dear Salam, > > No it doesnot slow down the system > > Regards, > > Umair Shakil > ETD > > On 9/21/07, Feizhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > umair shakil wrote: > > > Dear Salam, > > > > > > Well i have used the command on shell "updatedb" it wi

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-21 Thread umair shakil
Dear Salam, No it doesnot slow down the system Regards, Umair Shakil ETD On 9/21/07, Feizhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > umair shakil wrote: > > Dear Salam, > > > > Well i have used the command on shell "updatedb" it will allow you to > > make fast > > searching. > > and slow down the whole

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-21 Thread Mark Weaver
umair shakil wrote: Dear Salam, Well i have used the command on shell "updatedb" it will allow you to make fast searching. Regards, Umair Shakil ETD um... what? -- Mark "If you have found a very wise man, then you've found a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough to lea

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-21 Thread Mark Weaver
Brian Mathis wrote: On 9/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That or run buzzsaw (win) which is a continuous defragmenter (well, when the system is idle that is) that runs in the background and only costs $10. Pagedefrag from sysinternals doesn't hurt either (and it's free off

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On 9/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That or run buzzsaw (win) which is a continuous defragmenter (well, > when the system is idle that is) that runs in the background and only > costs $10. Pagedefrag from sysinternals doesn't hurt either (and it's free > off ms' website).

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-21 Thread William Warren
IME defragging is highly needed in busy servers that use a lot of disk. Every single one of my clients have seen server performance tank when fragmentation goes over 15% or so..including the workstations. In vista it's still necessary. John R Pierce wrote: you're in luck cause you don't d

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-21 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 01:48:07AM -0400, Peter Arremann wrote: > the filesystem doesn't get that full and if you really want to defrag, copy > the data off and back on. Its the best way to do it. This is, in fact, the historically correct answer as well. Backup, newfs, restore. aka "Nuke it fr

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-20 Thread Feizhou
umair shakil wrote: Dear Salam, Well i have used the command on shell "updatedb" it will allow you to make fast searching. and slow down the whole box during updatedb :-) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/lis

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-20 Thread Peter Arremann
On Thursday 20 September 2007, Al Sparks wrote: > Why? What's different between NTFS and ext2/3 that defragging is > needed in one but not the other? >=== Al And this is the right question to ask... Anyway - the answer about defragging, if you really care to understand it, is pretty length.

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-20 Thread umair shakil
Dear Salam, Well i have used the command on shell "updatedb" it will allow you to make fast searching. Regards, Umair Shakil ETD On 9/21/07, Al Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A couple of questions. Are there any linux tools that can de-frag an > ext2/3 partition? > > Are there any adva

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-20 Thread Jim Perrin
On 9/20/07, Al Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why? What's different between NTFS and ext2/3 that defragging is > needed in one but not the other? Mostly it has to do with the way information is ordered and written to the filesystem. The old FAT filesystem (and to a lesser extent NTFS) was s

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-20 Thread gjgowey
ther I just like the products. Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -Original Message- From: John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:38:40 To:CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux >> you're in luck cause you do

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-20 Thread Feizhou
Al Sparks wrote: Al Sparks wrote: A couple of questions. Are there any linux tools that can de-frag an ext2/3 partition? ext2, yes. ext3, no. And it is called a filesystem. A partition is a completely different thing. none for ext3 because it was not really necessary for ext2 and so the too

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-20 Thread John R Pierce
you're in luck cause you don't defrag an ext2/3 partition at all. defrag is for windows file systems. Ext file systems are a different animal all-together. Why? What's different between NTFS and ext2/3 that defragging is needed in one but not the other? IMHO, defragging is highly o

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-20 Thread Al Sparks
> Al Sparks wrote: >> A couple of questions. Are there any linux tools that can de-frag an >> ext2/3 partition? >> >> Are there any advantages to doing so if you're running hardware RAID5? >> >> Are there advantages / disadvantages if you're running LVM? >>=== Al > > you're in luck cause you

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-20 Thread Mark Weaver
Al Sparks wrote: A couple of questions. Are there any linux tools that can de-frag an ext2/3 partition? Are there any advantages to doing so if you're running hardware RAID5? Are there advantages / disadvantages if you're running LVM? === Al you're in luck cause you don't defrag an ext2/3

[CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-20 Thread Al Sparks
A couple of questions. Are there any linux tools that can de-frag an ext2/3 partition? Are there any advantages to doing so if you're running hardware RAID5? Are there advantages / disadvantages if you're running LVM? === Al ___ CentOS mailing lis