Hello everyone

1.I'm intrested in defraging my linux partition just as we do in windows.

2.How to install packages from command line.


It's been 2 years since i've defragment my servers and it's about time.

Thanks

Fahad

Reboot into single user mode and run a manual fsck which will tell you the percentage of fragmentation.. majority of the time, I'd say 95% of the time you will never need to defrag your Linux drives, the Lnux filesystems are superior to Windows and don't get fragmented.

trickykid is right you shouldn't have to do this. In the past when I have asked about this I was told the only way to do it is to backup the file system remove it and recreate it then restore the data. I wouldn't worry about it I run a ton of servers for long periods of time and have never had a framation problem.

you might want to read that :

https://www.redhat.com/archives/redh.../msg01240.html

no need, no way, no work ! I like this OS !

As for packages: What distro are you using?

Hello

I'm using RH 9.

However if ever i'm intrested in defrag is their a proper way from command line.

Thanks everyone

Fahad

I would very much doubt it.

A defragmenting tool is actually quite difficult to implement. For performance, you have to try and keep files together that are likely to be accessed at about the same time, as well as just putting file fragments together and consolidating the free space. Also, you need to allow read/write access to the filesystem during this time, to prevent the need to take the machine offline. For performance, you also need to minimize the number of disk reads/writes, which is not an easy requirement to accommodate.

This is all much easier to do in the filesystem driver than it is in a user-space utility, so I doubt that we'll see a user-space defrag tool anytime soon; it's far more likely that we'll just keep seeing better and less fragmentey filesystems. I guess that Windows can't do this because of the need to support old legacy programs that access the disk directly.

The easiest and safest way to defragment a hard disk is still to take all the files off it and then put them back onto it again. Works every time.

You need to have the partition unmounted as in boot up from a rescue cd.
For example: to run this on /dev/hdb1
You can run the command: e2fsck -f /dev/hdb1
You can try it without the -f ( force ) switch first. More commands with e2fsck --help