Jerry Houston wrote:
For years, defragging hard drives has been part of my routine system maintenance on Windows systems.
That's because Microsoft's filesystems suck^H^H^H^Hare poorly designed and written.
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.
Why? Which files are fragmented? And how did they become fragmented?
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?
Is defragmentation possible for Linux file systems?
Yes. The filesystems do it automatically whenever a file changes size.
Is it needed occasionally, as it is on Windows systems?
Since it is done continously, on a file-by-file basis, as needed, there is never more than a handful of files on any partition which are fragmented...and the filesystem drivers defrag those files as soon as it is convenient (which is to say, long before you'll ever notice it happening).
Thanks in advance.
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