Ole Kofoed Hansen wrote:
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
I am curious to know if there is any such thing as fragmentation problems or a need for defragging the hard drive in Linux.
The reason I wonder is that I have never seen or heard any mention of disk fragmentation as a concern with Linux.
If disk fragmentation is not an issue in Linux, can anyone explain why?
I am not anywhere near an expert, but I've been told that the ext2 filesystem handles defragging itself, so there should be no need to use an extra program for that.
Not realy defragging itself, but reservating bigger straps of diskspace in advance, so files do not get fragmented as in DoS. The result is: do not care. For those who are brave, keep daily backups and love reinstalls <grin> there are some tools out there, for defragging ext2, seen it mentioned here, but I never cared. How about ReiserFS on that topic? Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq