HOW DO YOU PERFORM DISK CLEANUP AND DE FRAGMENT

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2010/3/1 Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>:
> 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:
>>
>>>                                                                   It
>>> 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

No matter what file system you use, you should never let your HDD be
close to full. When you reach, I don't know, say 90-95 %, you'd better
buy a bigger HDD or just add another HDD.


Regards

Johnny Rosenberg



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