For years, defragging hard drives has been part of my routine system maintenance on Windows systems. It occurred to me that I've now had Linux systems up and running long enough that it might be a good idea to defragment their drives, to make sure everything is running as smoothly as possible.
I haven't been able to find any information about drive defragmentation for Linux file systems. Searching for "defrag" with the software installer turned up no results. Is it called something else in Linux land?
Is defragmentation possible for Linux file systems? Is it needed occasionally, as it is on Windows systems?
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:EXT2_Fragmentation and http://www.itworld.com/Comp/3380/nls_unixfrag040929/index.html . http://www2.lut.fi/~ilonen/ext3_fragmentation.html provides a slightly different view, but I think the conclusion may be only valid for nearly-full drives and systems with a single concurrent user / active process. Having multiple active disk using processes will effectively eliminate any slowdown caused by reasonable levels of fragmentation. But it seems there are some specific circumstances where it may be a problem (http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Speed_up_Package_Manager_Stack). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org