no "defrag" in Linux?

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Wed Jul 19 06:48:10 UTC 2006


On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:03:28 +0200
Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> wrote:

{ User Iam wrote } 

> > So how do you determine % of fragmentation??
> 
> I think fsck for ext3 shows the fragmentation level. 

yes, I noticed on the last fsck here ( the automatic one after ~30
remounts ) that fsck reported 4% fragmentation here on my ext3 drive.

>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.

I don't know that either. :-)

Peter




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