HI How do you determine amount <%> of fragmentation??? Thank YOU User Iam <div>On 7/17/06, James Gray <<a href="mailto:james@grayonline.id.au">james@grayonline.id.au</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Clutton wrote: > ext3 is better than windows file systems like fat and ntfs, it is soo > unlikely you would reach more then 0.1 percent fragmented. I agree - defragmenting ext2/3 is more a waste of time than anything else, but I have to challenge your assertion that >0.1% fragmentation is highly unlikely. I've been running Linux both in the server room and on desktops since the mid-90's. It's not uncommon for ext2/3 (or jfs/xfs/reiserfs too) to be between 5-10% fragmented. However, this amount of fragmentation on these file systems, coupled with the way the Linux kernel uses buffers and caching for disk access, results in no appreciable reduction in performance. I've only occasionally seen more than 10% fragmentation and that was on extremely small and busy partitions (like 100MB /temp partitions). As the partitions were small, it's pretty easy to drop to single user mode, tar up the partition to /somewhere/else then reformat the partition and untar the files back where they came from. Back into run level 3 and /temp is 0% fragmented. Voila. Using /temp as an example is rather trivial but highlights the conditions required to cause significant fragmentation: 1. small partition. 2. lots of files being created/deleted with varying sizes. 3. a lot of time. Cheers, James -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</a> iD8DBQFEvHiJwBHpdJO7b9ERAqK+AKDC3a49T8hxhF911No0sxNK+BmUcgCgutvM 5ThxzBJatNg2H5aiceYacII= =UUXX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>