HOW DO YOU PERFORM DISK CLEANUP AND DE FRAGMENT

[Andrew Farris]

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 23:23 +0100, Knapp wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Brian <ad44 at cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon 01 Mar 2010 at 19:43:55 +0100, Knapp wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Brian <ad44 at cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
[snip]
> >> 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.
[snip]
> > 30 minutes? Is that how long it can take? I admit my machines are not the
> > latest but the one with a 120 GB disc only takes a couple of minutes to get
> > past the e2fsck check.
> 
> I have not timed it, I just go and make breakfast when that starts and
> by the time I am done eating is mostly done. Given that I have almost
> 10x more HD than you 30 minutes is not a bad estimate.

I have a 650GB drive containing my /home and, as a point of interest,
the last time it did a disk auto-check, it only took about 3-5min to
complete. The drive is a new-ish 7200RPM Seagate with 32MB cache if it
makes a difference...

-- 
Andrew
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