--- Tim Ruehsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You don't need to. You only need to defragment your disk if your
operating system is incapable of keeping the fragmentation under
control, and Linux does not suffer from this problem.
Many people say so, but it is not true.
Ext2 takes some
Tim Ruehsen wrote:
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Jiann-Ming Su posted a link, which talks about two possibilities to defragment
your discs: either use defrag (but make a backup before!) or just make a
backup, clean your partitions and restore the backup.
I did the last thing (after using my system for ~2 years for
I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should probably defragment my partitions. How can I do this?-- If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?
Kretzer, Jason R (Big Sandy) wrote:
Unless I am mistaken, there is no defrag utility for linux. Anyone
have anything to add?
Defragging on a Linux system is generally unnecessary; therefore there's
no utility for the task.
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--- Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should
probably
defragment my partitions. How can I do this?
You don't need to. You only need to defragment your disk if your
operating system is incapable of keeping the fragmentation under
I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should
probably
defragment my partitions. How can I do this?
Normally this is not necessary. But if you want you can use defrag.
Flori
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Thanks for the help, and sorry for my newbish lack of knowledge.-- If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?
Not a problem.
If you don't ASK, you don't GET.
-Jason
From: Ian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 11:42 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?
Thanks for the help, and sorry for my newbish
You don't need to. You only need to defragment your disk if your
operating system is incapable of keeping the fragmentation under
control, and Linux does not suffer from this problem.
Many people say so, but it is not true.
Ext2 takes some precautions to reduce fragmentation a bit (in
Le Mardi 23 Août 2005 17:24, Ian a écrit :
I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should
probably defragment my partitions. How can I do this?
well, with linux, i believe you just don't have to defrag your partitions...
so don't worry about that anymore ;-)
On 8/23/05, Tim Ruehsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You don't need to. You only need to defragment your disk if your
operating system is incapable of keeping the fragmentation under
control, and Linux does not suffer from this problem.
Many people say so, but it is not true.
Ext2 takes
don't know, if there is a defrag utility for linux, but first of all you
should realize that after few months there is probably no need to
defragment. linux filesystems like ext3 get fragmented a lot lot less
than FAT32 or NTFS as far as i know.
besides there is certainly a method that
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From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?
Defragging on a Linux system is generally unnecessary; therefore there's
no utility for the task
In gmane.linux.debian.user Ian wrote:
I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should probably
defragment my partitions. How can I do this?
Here's the best explanation of the topic that I have seen so far.
Credit goes to Lew Pitcher:
(V)FAT), but ext2 can't prevent it. And it is not a feature of 'Linux' it is
a feature of the filesystem.
With this in mind, selecting a suitable partitioning scheme can minimize
any fragmentation issues.
For example, areas of the filesystem with a large turnover of files can
cause serious
On 8/23/05, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In gmane.linux.debian.user Ian wrote:
I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should probably
defragment my partitions. How can I do this?
Here's the best explanation of the topic that I have seen so far.
Credit goes to Lew
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 08:24 am, Ian wrote:
I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should
probably defragment my partitions. How can I do this?
You can't, and you shouldn't need to.
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On Tuesday 23 August 2005 08:49 am, Tim Ruehsen wrote:
I did the last thing (after using my system for ~2 years for ~10 hours a
day, making updates every day) and my system booted about 30% faster. Now,
after a year or so, it seems to be time to do it again (booting became
slower and slower).
On 8/23/05, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 08:49 am, Tim Ruehsen wrote:
I did the last thing (after using my system for ~2 years for ~10 hours a
day, making updates every day) and my system booted about 30% faster. Now,
after a year or so, it seems to be
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 14:11 -0500, Gary Smithe wrote:
Don't hang me (or flame me) for this, but some Microsoft based speculation.
No prob. All this applies to CP/M and the Apple ][ OS, too.
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Tim Ruehsen wrote:
You don't need to. You only need to defragment your disk if your
operating system is incapable of keeping the fragmentation under
control, and Linux does not suffer from this problem.
Many people say so, but it is not true.
Ext2 takes some precautions to reduce
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:19:55 -0400
kamaraju kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
post your df -h output? I have a feeling that defragmenting an ext2/ext3
partition does not increase performance if the partitions are not
heavily filled up. But I could be wrong.
I'm skeptical that it would
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:38:29 +0200
Michal Simovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
don't know, if there is a defrag utility for linux, but first of all you
should realize that after few months there is probably no need to
Under most circumstances yes. I've been running linux for years, but
managed
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