Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2008 22:19:11 schrieb Jerry Houston:
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.
For the most common linux file systems it is not neccessary to defragment, if they are filled up to 90 to 95%. So you care to have always some free disk space.
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?
No there is no tool dedicated for this. If you want to defragment inplace there ahs to be one such tool for every file system type... If you want to do this offline, you can copy file by file from one partition to another (using runlevel 1 when neccessary).
Is defragmentation possible for Linux file systems? Is it needed occasionally, as it is on Windows systems?
Even on windows using NTFS defragmentation isn't neccessary if you do not fill the disk too much. Tools for defragmentation only exist, because some people fmilar with Windows 95/98 and the Fat file system ask for such tools and are willing to spend some money for this. Cheers Herbert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org