Newbie Info
William Case
billlinux at rogers.com
Fri Oct 19 16:48:43 UTC 2007
Hi Danny;
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 11:07 -0500, Danny Mooney wrote:
> I have one computer in the household running Fedora 6 and the one I am
> on right now is a Gov XP on a Dell system that I am required to use in
> my work. My question is on the Fedora side is there a defrag program
> that can be run on Fedora in a schedule or otherwise?
>
[snip]
As you can gather from the other responses. defrag isn't used often on a
Linux system. It isn't needed; the Linux kernel and friends do much
better job of allocating space on a hard disk.
The following two sites begin the explanation. You can explore more
from there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defragmentation#_note-4
http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=241
Although they both sites mention the possibility of defragmentation on a
UNIX like system, rest assured, it is seldom done.
--
Regards Bill
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