Disk defragmenter in Linux
Peter Gordon
admin at ramshacklestudios.com
Sun Jan 1 20:44:38 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 12:35 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> It is a good policy to never exceed 80% usage on any partition,
> precisely for performance reasons. I am not certain how much each
> filesystem type (Ext2/3, XFS, FAT32) is affected, but 80...85% is a good
> number to keep in mind. Exceed it, and the performance usually starts to
> drop dramatically.
Agreed in full. I generally make my partitions a lot larger
than I expect them to be used, for this very reason. Granted, it could
be easier for me, as disk space really *is* inexpensive where I live;
whereas it may not be in other areas...
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Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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