no "defrag" in Linux?

[Alexander Skwar]

· User Iam <vramnum10 at gmail.com>:

> On 7/17/06, Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
>>
>> · Peter Clutton <peterclutton at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > ext3 is better than windows file systems like fat and ntfs, it is soo
>> > unlikely you would reach more then 0.1 percent fragmented.
>>
>> No, it's not unlikely. Just use the filesystem over 99% usage
>> and you'll get a lot of framentation.

> So how do you determine % of fragmentation??

I think fsck for ext3 shows the fragmentation level. But I'm not
sure and I don't know, if there's a generic interface which gives
that information independent of the used fs.

Alexander Skwar
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