Defragmenting disks under Linux

[Michal Zeravik]

My boottime fsck shows about 3.4% of fragmented files on / ext3 partition.
It's quite a lot, isn't it? Well, It's over an half year, but...

michalz


Chris Jones wrote:

>As a long-time user of various Windoze "distro's" (from win3.11 all the
>way to Win2k), I have come to recognise that one needs to regularly
>de-frag hard-disks under windoze. 
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>My question is:-
>Is linux susceptible to fragmentation?
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>If so, then what tool is best to cure it, and keep it cured?
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>--  
>>From Chris Jones
>mailto:linux at stow-jones.co.uk
>web: http://www.stow-jones.co.uk/
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