HOW DO YOU PERFORM DISK CLEANUP AND DE FRAGMENT

[Brian]

On Mon 01 Mar 2010 at 16:17:47 +0100, Knapp wrote:

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> is disk maintenance as is the MS defrag in and this way I see it all
> being the same thing in the end from the users perspective.

Fragmentation of the file system is at best beneficial and at the
worst benign. No action is needed to either avoid or remedy it,

A corrupted file system leading to data loss is at best upsetting and
at the worst disastrous. Preventive maintainence is required.

>From the user's perspective there is a considerable difference between
not having to bother with defragmenting a device and the advisability
of running e2fsck every so often.