Disk defragmenter in Linux
Hans Kristian Rosbach
hk at isphuset.no
Tue Jan 3 08:39:36 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 10:48 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 11:02 +0100, Hans Kristian Rosbach wrote:
>
> > This is all good, but sometimes you do run out of space. I've seen
> > several servers run out of space at night due to runaway processes
> > or something similarly uncontrollable situation.
>
> Yeah, S*%t Happens (TM).
>
> > Now, what I see as a bigger problem is my home directory.
>
> /home usually gets very fragmented, indeed.
> That's usually taken care of when you're going to the next Fedora
> release. One more reason to backup/format/reinstall instead of upgrade.
If that is the schedule I suggest we start pumping out FC releases every
3 months instead so we can catch up with the fragmentation issue.
Oh, and state this as a reason not to use the FC upgrade feature.
Still a bad workaround.
-HK
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