Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:33:50 +0100 (CET) | From | Mads Martin Jørgensen <> | Subject | Ext2 defragmentation |
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Linux Community;
How necessary is it to defragment ones ext2 partitions? It just hit me that defragmentation is very important under the Wintendo filesystem. I've found the program e2defrag which is just a small hack done to defrag (Stephen C. Tweedie) to make it work under the 2.2 kernel. The problem is that in the README-0.71 it says:
"I have NOT tested this yet, all I know is it compiles and *should* work, but I am not making any gurantees, so DO NOT use this on any filesystems with important data that you have not backed up. It would perobably even be a good idea to test this on a dummy filesystem first.
Finally, I did make it compile on 2.2.x, but I just know ANSI C, I have not looked over the algorithm to see how it works, I frankly have no idea, so please don't email me asking for help with improvements, all I did was a few minor hacks to make it compile on 2.2.x
I had better also say that this is NOT an official maintainer release, its just a small hack I did, as the original maintainers don't seem to be maintaining this anymore."
And now I wonder; Is it worth the risk, or is the gain so small that one should'nt bother.
I Have 2 partitions on my HD - one that is 5 Gb and one that is 3 Gb.
-Sincerily
P.S How about ext3 - is fragmentation then a memory of the old computer days? -- Mads Martin Jørgensen Stud. Scient. Dat/Chem E-Mail: mmj@mmj.dk URL: www.mmj.dk
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