Re: repartitioning, NOT fips!

[Adam Getchell <acgetchell ucdavis edu>]

>"Since it's a brand new installation, defragmenting (hopefully) won't
>be needed, but is there a convenient utility to check?"
>
>This sorta sparked my curiosity, does Linux and other Unix systems suffer
>from the same sort of disk fragmentation issues that M$ and Macs suffer
>from? And are there defrag utilities for Linux?

According to the partition mini HOWTO
(http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Partition-3.htm) ext2 (the Linux
filesystem) doesn't suffer much from fragmentation even on heavily used
partitions. The HOWTO notes that there is a tool for defragging ext2 but it
is not up to date, so use at your own risk.

--Adam

acgetchell ucdavis edu
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