Re: Ext2 defragmentation

Folkert van Heusden (fvh@keetweej.demon.nl)
Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:20:50 -0100


Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Of course, since ext2 is resistent to fragmentation, it is questionable

Is it?
I do not really call 17.4% relatively unfragmented :)
(/dev/hdb1: 16597/1024000 files (17.4% non-contiguous), 580761/1024001
blocks)

> how worthwhile this is... defragging will affect different situations in
> different ways, so you won't know how effective it is until you
> benchmark it.

That is true.

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