HOW DO YOU PERFORM DISK CLEANUP AND DE FRAGMENT

[Knapp]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Good advice but not always doable. Poor Uni students with laptops
being a great example. In the end, I always ended up deleting my
music. :-( Happy to now have TB drives!!

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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