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On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Grant<emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've |
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> also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that |
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> ext4 will have a defragmenter but that it doesn't have one yet. |
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It's not that they aren't supposed to become fragmented, it is that |
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they try to avoid it. There is a big difference, and things like |
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streaming writes (downloads, bittorrents, etc) can cause extreme |
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fragmentation. |
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The time-honored way of fixing this is "backup, delete, restore". In |
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my case my simple defragmenter is to move a file to tmpfs and then |
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move it back to the hard drive. I always do this to files I'm about to |
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burn to a CD/DVD to ensure the read speed is optimal. |
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> Has anyone tried the shake defragmenter? |
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Yes, nothing has blown up yet. :) |
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