A few questions...

[Roy Smith]

Brian McKee wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
>   
>> Roy Smith wrote:
>>     
>>> accustomed to doing except I can't find where you would defragment the
>>> drives.  Is it necessary?
>>>
>>>       
>> Short answer, no, it's not necessary
>>
>> Long answer: About all the Linux filesystems try very hard to avoid
>> fragmentation by writing files in areas of disk where there is large
>> contiguous space.
>>     
>
> Just a minor add on comment to this - you can get a fairly fragmented
> file system if your drive is very full - say 95% plus just to pick a
> number - as it runs out of contiguous space to save things.
>   

Well I don't think I have to worry about that for a while since my root 
partition has 39 GB free space, and my /home partition has 150 GB of 
free space available.



-- 

Roy Smith
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
Registered Linux User #488144



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