HOW DO YOU PERFORM DISK CLEANUP AND DE FRAGMENT

[Knapp]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Brian <ad44 at cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

I find that most uses have no idea what the difference is nor the
consequences. They just see a computer taking 30 minutes to boot and
the fact the MS never did that to them. At least with defrag it
happened when you chose it to.

Admittedly not defagging will not cause data loss but there also seems
to be some debate about how often you need to e2fsck a hd when there
are no major problems like power loss.

Back when I ran XP disk time was the bottle neck of my whole system.
Defagging a HD that was close to full made a big difference in how
fast my system ran. E2fcks on the other hand always was a bit of a
black box that used up a lot of time ever now and then. I have always
had some idea that it was fixing up the HD but no idea how or why.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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