HOW DO YOU PERFORM DISK CLEANUP AND DE FRAGMENT

[Knapp]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com> wrote:
> 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

Time might be related to the amount of data on a HD or perhaps the
number of files.



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