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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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Reiser tends to self-balance itself out. What is especially noteworthy is that |
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none of the general purpose Linux filesystems provide a defrag utility. |
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Theodore 'Tso and Hans Reiser are both exceptional programmers, if there was |
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a need for such a tool they would assuredly have written one. They did not, |
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so there probably isn't. |
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Any Linux defrag tool you encounter will have been written by a third party |
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separate from the developers. It will move blocks around and update |
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superblocks, the drive will have to be unmounted for that to work and a |
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slight misunderstanding of how to do it will ruin data. |
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Are you willing to take the very real risk of data corruption? |
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> Is |
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> there a best way? I do have a second hard drive that I back up too. |
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> Both Drives are 80Gbs and I do have a set of DVD back ups as well. I |
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> can update those pretty quick. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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