should i be concerned (defragment?)...

marsques · 01-11-2005, 05:30 PM

fsck auto checked my ext3 drive as it had been mounted for the 22nd time and it said 12% non continuous should i do anything about it?

this is the drive where i store all the source code of programs compiled as well as anything i download...

linuxgeekery · 01-11-2005, 05:43 PM

No, you don't really need to defrag your linux drive that much. It's just a good idea to run fsck every once in a while and BACK UP!

ringwraith · 01-11-2005, 05:52 PM

you aren't concerned with fragmentation in linux at all.

marsques · 01-11-2005, 06:15 PM

will the "12% non continious" rectify it self automatically?

by the way does this mean the partition is 12% fragmented?

KMcD · 01-12-2005, 09:21 AM

it means that 12% of files are fragmented (or non-contigous, love that word). Highest it ever hit on my system was 5.7 but it's now down to 2.8% and I dunno why.

levicc00123 · 01-12-2005, 08:18 PM

just out of curiousity, how do you defragment a disk under linux?

WMD · 01-13-2005, 12:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by KMcD
it means that 12% of files are fragmented (or non-contigous, love that word). Highest it ever hit on my system was 5.7 but it's now down to 2.8% and I dunno why.

The kernel can actually defragment some drives while idle.