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Daniel Iliev schrieb: |
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> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:46:01 +0200 |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> 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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> I beg to defer. The simplest way to defrag a partition is to make |
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> backup and restore. If it's worth the effort is another story. |
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>> It's not Windows. Windows boxes needs defragging not because |
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>> fragmentation is a huge problem in itself, but because windows |
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>> filesystems are a steaming mess of cr@p that do little right and most |
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>> things wrong. Defrag treats the symptom, not the cause :-) |
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> Personally I think NTFS is one of the things MS have done right. It is |
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> fast, stable and has the features of the Linux FSes and even more. It |
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> has journal, quotas, permissions, mount points, symbolic links. Does |
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> any of ext, reiserfs or xfs have compression and/or encryption |
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> capabilities? I don't think so. |
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> I have some experience with MS Windows and I've never seen data |
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> corruption after a system crash or power loss, a thing I can't say |
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> about ReiserFS or ext3 (when not mounted with data=journal). |
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<SNIP> |
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My experience with NTFS is somewhat more balanced (maybe). In about 12 |
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years I experienced one damaged NTFS instance. This was caused by a |
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crash during an installation (don't remember what we installed - it's |
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been about 9 years ago :-) |
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BUT this was an example of total destruction and mayhem -- absolutely |
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irreparable. After about 120 errors (filenames with very much foreign |
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sounding names - high bit turned on) we gave up and reinstalled everything. |
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Probably the MFT was damaged beyond repair. |
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So my conclusion --- NTFS is not so easy to damage, but if you manage |
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it, you're toast :-/ |
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Ciao, |
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Wolfgang Liebich |