[CoLoCo] defragmenting in linux?

[Joey Stanford]

Hi,

On 11/15/07, Chomafin <chomafin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe most of the Major FS's in linux (i.e. ext2/3, reiserfs) run
> defragments continually, so there is no need to manually run one.

As I understand it, file allocation is much better in ext3. So much so
that it eliminates fragmentation.  There is a defrag program available
but I wouldn't encourage it's use.

See Fragementation at
http://dataexpedition.com/~sbnoble/Tips/filesystems.html

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