Defrag.

[Andy Pieters]

Hi

Fedora uses standard the ext3 filesystem.  Ext3 is higly optimised and not to 
be compared to the miscreations of microsoft (fat,vfat, ntfs (made by IBM 
IIRC)).  And as such it is not required to defrag.

A defrag utility exists but it requires you to unmount the partition first and 
it takes quite a long time.  The benefits are ignorable.

Welcome to Linux.  You will find that a lot of the anoyances you where used to 
with Windows do not exist here.  For instance Linux is virusfree and the only 
need to run a virusscanner is when you have a webserver or email server and 
want to detect viruses in uploaded files to prevent that you acidentaly 
transmit them to others.

The ext3 filesystem keeps a log when it is about to change something and if 
failure ocurrs it is generally able to restore most of the data although you 
might want to research on RAID if you have critical data.

Open a console, and give the command df (stands for DiskFree) see if there are 
partitions that are nearing 100% which could explain heavy disk activity 
(ignore the /dv:shm because that is a ramdisk)

HTH


Andy

On Thursday 06 October 2005 11:11, harry weston wrote:
> How does one defrag Fedora. Often, when the prog is on standby, I hear
> the HD chortling away to itself. Wonder what its doing?. Regards,
> Harry.

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