IME defragging is highly needed in busy servers that use a lot of disk.
Every single one of my clients have seen server performance tank when
fragmentation goes over 15% or so..including the workstations. In vista
it's still necessary.
John R Pierce wrote:
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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