geekblog.oneandoneis2.org — . . . That is a question that crops up with regularity on Linux forums when new users are unable to find the defrag tool on their shiny new desktop. Here's a brave at giving a simple, non-technical answer as to why some filesystems suffer more from fragmenting than others
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Closed AccountMar 27, 2008
It was probably jst my windows. My roomate restarted his computer the other day after the boot he had no more sound cards. We tried absolutely everything from new divers to new sound cards. Windows just said f**k you bejayel's roomate.
markkeznerMar 27, 2008
Nothing is written for it? There are thousands of software packages in the Debian repositories alone. You're clueless.
init100Mar 28, 2008
"The tried-and-true UNIX way to "defragment" is to dd your disk to somewhere else, reformat, and dd it back."That's certifiably false. Using dd transfers a disk image, which does not rearrange the files on the partition, and does nothing to defragment the partition.
linuxpenguinMar 29, 2008
You know, if you had more exclamation points your comment would look really professional!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Seriously though, I don't spend much time at all doing things to Linux. I install it, and that's it. Many of my PCs have nVidia graphics, so I install those drivers, but other than that, I'm done. Perhaps you'd care to explain why I'd care to configure my system all day?And if you read the article, you'll see that the real reason it doesn't fragment is because of the way it was designed. MacOS X does basically the same thing with its filesystems and also doesn't suffer from fragmentation. Not to mention. . . we Linux people download many GIGABYTE sized files to burn CD's for our distros. . . what do you mean, we don't have time to write data to the filesystem?Also, Linux has had the "option" to do automatic defragmentation since I started using it 9 years ago. I say "option" because it's really not an option - when the system detects a defrag is needed it does it automatically at system startup whether you ask it to or not. You just don't notice because it almost never happens - IIRC it has to be above 1% fragmentation for this to happen, I haven't had that situation since back when I only had a 10GB drive (and filled it up with music).
int19hApr 2, 2008
This couldn't possibly be a troll?
grumpyrainApr 4, 2008
Actually you were 510th. 10 people think I am wrong ;)