[Tfug] Defrag a disk

[jblais]

I figured asking the question would be telling a lot about myself  :-)

We were just going over some weird stuff happening on an XP machine that
defrag "seemed" to fix, so I thought to ask about Linux --

We do have Exit for the Linux, so I guess we're OK.

Thanks -

Joe



> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org]On Behalf Of
> Jim March
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 3:10 PM
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Defrag a disk
>
>
> Ext3 partitions don't need defragging.
>
> SOME of the other partition types do - not ReiserFS, but XFS and I
> *think* JFS can get fragmented.
>
> Then again...if you're new enough to be asking this question, you
> should be using Ext3 for your primary Linux partition, plus a swap
> partition (it's a special type of it's own) plus small Fat32
> partitions to do transfers with Windows/Mac users and NTFS for
> anything Windows2000/XP/Vista will be accessing.
>