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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote: |
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>> If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it? |
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> By not defragging it. |
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> It's not Windows. Windows boxes needs defragging not because fragmentation is |
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> a huge problem in itself, but because windows filesystems are a steaming mess |
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> of cr@p that do little right and most things wrong. Defrag treats the |
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> symptom, not the cause :-) |
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I don't buy into that argument and never did. Every few months I copy |
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the whole HD to another one and then back to counter fragmentation |
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(ext3) and the system becomes noticeably faster after doing it (speed |
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increase in emerge --sync for example.) Maybe it's not fragmentation |
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but rather related files being more closely together after I do this. |
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