Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1581 mails)

[Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 13 of February 2010, John Heinen wrote:
> How do I know when and how  to defrag my computer with open suse , or
> don't I have to worry about it?

 As demonstrated also in this thread, there is a widely accepted myth that 
defragmenting is completely useless with Linux, and as such nobody has been 
really bothered enough to write any reasonably usable generic tool. If you 
care about this enough to do some work, you can e.g. google for how to 
deframent some files that make Firefox startup slower, and similar issues. If 
you have the preload package installed, that one tries to also lay out better 
all the files that are needed during startup. But in general this is probably 
not worth the trouble anymore, especially given that SSDs now start to make 
this problem void.

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 Lubos Lunak
 openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer
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