A few questions...

[NoOp]

On 04/08/2009 06:10 PM, J. Limon wrote:
> Roy Smith wrote:
>> Hi Everyone!  Being fairly new to Ubunto and Linux in general, I've 
>> got a few questions.  I've been using computers for a long time, 
>> started out with a C-64, then progressed to an Amiga, and for the past 
>> 11 years I've been using various versions of Windows.  Over the years 
>> I've gotten accustomed to having to do various maintenance tasks with 
>> the computer, such as checking the file system for errors, 
>> defragmenting the drives and so on.  I've found a few programs to do 
>> some of the things I'm accustomed to doing except I can't find where 
>> you would defragment the drives.  Is it necessary?
>>
> 
> As long as you are using ext3 (which is the standard filesystem in 
> Ubuntu), defragging is unnecessary.
> 

This might be of interest:
<http://www.h-online.com/open/Tuning-the-Linux-file-system-Ext3--/features/110398/3>

I also seem to have read that ext4 will include a built in defragment
tool that can defragment individual files.