Re: Defragging large filesystems

1999-01-02 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
"Eric Gillespie, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not quite sure what you're talking about here. Seems to me > fragmentation percentage would mean how much my files are fragmented. On > all my other filesystems, the percentage is between 1 and 3. I can > understand how the mp3 filesystem may

Re: Defragging large filesystems

1999-01-01 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > Are you sure? ext2 is quite good to keep files allocated continiously. > > AFAIK, fragmentation percentage is not what you're > probably thinking. ext2 allocates space for file > in continious blocks which has some size limit (few megs?). > I believe

Re: Defragging large filesystems

1998-12-31 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Eric Gillespie wrote: > I know this isn't a Debian-specific question but I'm at home for xmas and > I don't have access to the newsgroups here, so forgive me this > transgression. > > I have an 8gig hard drive which I made a single ext2 filesystem to hold my > mp3s. While rip