[Tfug] Defrag a disk

[Rich]

On Sep 10, 2007, at 3:09 pm, Jim March wrote:

> but XFS and I *think* JFS can get fragmented.
Yep. XFS is the best filesystem I've used, and fragmentation has  
never been a problem for me. If it was:
http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/index.php/XFS_defragmentation

With JFS, it seems the free-space fragmentation is the issue:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp? 
topic=/com.ibm.aix.baseadmn/doc/baseadmndita/jfsfreespace.htm

> 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.

Hm. First, what happens when you want to transfer *big* files on  
those small FAT32 partitions? And second, what's wrong with dumping  
FAT32 entirely and *supporting* NTFS? Linux and Mac can both use  
FUSE. Anyway, this is OT, (by which I don't mean "On Topic", or  
"Operating Thetan").

R.