(by mistake only replied to Ted, sorry) Theodore Ts'o wrote: >Ext2/3 has advanced algorithms to make sure that the blocks that are >allocated avoid fragmentation, but it is not doing any kind of dynamic > > And there is a tool 'filefrag' in e2fsprogs that reports how fragmented a particular file is. If your disk grows full (over 90-95%, depending on file sizes etc..) then it is more difficult to find continuous blocks for files. Now, if you delete files, then new files most probably are non-fragmented but those files that were written when disk was full are still fragmented. You can "unfragment" those files just by copying them and deleting old ones (if you have plenty of free space), but as Damian told, you must be careful with locks and nfs handles. -- http://www.iki.fi/puhuri/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
