Re: Disk De-Fraging in Linux

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you're in luck cause you don't defrag an ext2/3 partition at all. defrag
is for windows file systems. Ext file systems are a different animal
all-together.

Why?  What's different between NTFS and ext2/3 that defragging is
needed in one but not the other?


IMHO, defragging is highly overrated in NTFS too. it was the old FAT/FAT32 file system that suffered from horrible performance when heavily fragmented.



that said, the best way to defrag a file system is to dump it to external media, delete then recreate the file system and restore the dump.


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