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[guy.van.sanden@xxxxxxxxxx (Guy Van Sanden)]

ext2 file system has built in systems that keep fragmentation to a minimum. 
This means that it does fragment a little.  The percentage of fragmentation is
mainly determined by the size of your partitions (2 small partitions will cause
less fragmentation then one big).

fsck can report the percentage of fragmentation;  In fact this happens when you
boot up (maximum mount count reached, check forced).  I've heard that there are
applications to defragment ext2 fs but I don't think anything is stable yet.

I would recommend taking a look at www.linuxberg.com

On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, you wrote:
> Hello SuSE folks!
> 
> Does ext2 Linux file system require periodical defragmentation like FAT or
> NTFS?
> I couldn't find any information about what prevents ext2 file system from
> fragmentation under heavy usage and why ext2 doesn't require periodical
> defragmentation. Are there any special defragmenting applications for Linux?
> Could somebody point me on the information source about nessessarity or 
> unnesseserity to periodically make defragmentation of ext2 Linux partitions?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
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