HOW DO YOU PERFORM DISK CLEANUP AND DE FRAGMENT

Brian ad44 at cityscape.co.uk
Mon Mar 1 12:43:25 UTC 2010


On Sun 28 Feb 2010 at 15:25:50 +0100, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

> FYI: ALL Linux distributions check their disks after X reboots (or 
> mounts). Fedora does it, Mandriva does it, OpenSuse does it,...
> 30 seems to be a common value for the forced check.

Interestingly the interval 20 to 40 is coded into mk2fs. It is chosen,
I imagine, as being reasonable. What gets used is determined in a
vaguely random way so that not all file systems are checked at the same
time..




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