Hubert, Thanks for getting back to me.
Are you sure you can see a slowdown?
Yes, you're probably right -- the slowdown (if any) is probably negligible. But I wonder if that would be the case at a higher frag percentage (like 50 or 60%, in an extreme scenario).
I think most of the fragmentation on /usr comes from compiling the kernel. The installation wrote the apps to a freshly formatted partition so they shouldn't be fragmented at all. This may not be true for applications installed after a kernel compile but fragmentation really shouldn't be a problem.
Well, I've been installing a lot of apps to /usr/local lately -- most of them downloaded from the Internet. And de-installing apps as well. /usr is getting a lot -- too much -- traffic these days.
Does anybody have background on what to do about fragmented HDs?
Nothing. Just ignore it. Fragmentation only can become a problem on almost full partitions.
At the moment, my /usr partition is 94 0.000000ull, with only 110,000MBs of remaining space. Am I at a critical level of fullness right now? *** BTW, Hubert, thanks for your comment a few minutes ago about the recent flamewar. (More of a flame*battle*, but still). If newbies make comments that people are offended by, *please* ignore those comments, okay? If you flame them -- either here or in private -- *the entire ML* will be liable to a counterflame, as we saw this morning. -- Glenn -- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e