Re: Defragmentation of RH Drives

[O A <velithion yahoo es>]

could you please tell us more about "drive optimization" ?
is there a way to tune the drive/hd ? how?

thanks


 --- Stephen Kuhn <skuhn telpacific com au> escribió: > On Mon, 2003-05-05 at
17:21, Rich Garcia wrote:
> > I am new to Linux and was wondering how important is defrag on linux
> > drives. I have always defrag'ed every couple of days on NTFS. How does
> > one go about that in Linux ? It is not apparent if there is a built in
> > application. I have one RH 9 box with a small HD and I want to keep it
> > in the best possible shape for some extra speed.
> > -- 
> > Rich Garcia K4GPS
> > Jupiter Farms FL.
> > www.richgarcia.net
> > Jupiter Farms Community Emergency Response Team
> 
> Unlike FAT, VFAT, NTFS, HPFS - the unix filesystems do not necessarily
> fragment - especially with either ext3 or the others (ReiserFS, XFS and
> such) - so it is not even a thought of process.
> 
> There WAS a utility to deal with ext2 or a while, but in reality, in
> using a journalised file system, it's unnecessary.
> 
> You'll find that in use, ext3 coupled with drive optimisation will
> outperform anything that NTFS could come close to. I use ReiserFS and
> it's even faster, and works wonderfullly well under network and local
> usage - and it's not like I'm just dealing with heaps of smallish files
> - sometimes in excess of the 1gb mark for single files...
> 
> Either which, the answer is NO - you don't need to think about
> defrag'ing.
> 
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