This company has beta version of ext2/3 defrag tool....looks promising....would not run it on my computer... http://www.oo-software.com/en/products/oodlinux/index.html Marcelino >-----Original Message----- >From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Russell Golden >Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:07 PM >To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list >Subject: Re: Subject: defragfs > >When i try using it, it always gives me an error saying >something about the filesystem not being JFS. *shrug* not much >stuff on my drives besides tons of packages, anwyay. >i've heard that Red Hat Linux defrags automatically if you're >idle for x amount of time. is there any truth to that? it's >always discontiguous the same amount every time i boot... > >Tom Greaser wrote: > >>what filesystem are you using ? >>quick google says NOT to try and defrag ext3.. tool seems out of date. >>here is an idea >>from a post... >> >> I've actually looked at this before, and found a few solutions, but >>quickly concluded that the programs in question (which had to be run >>offline) seemed a little too unmaintained and unreliable to >test out on >>my partition. The best answer I've gotten from anyone so far is that >>yes, there is a program that can do this, and that program is tar. =) >>Of course, you'd need someplace to back everything up to. >Then you can >>just untar everything onto a clean partition, possibly with these new >>patches in place in the kernel you use during the restore, but since >>tar is probably doing this linearly anyway, I doubt it would >make much >>difference. >> >>Long story short, most people I've talked to have never had any >>problems with fragmented ext[23] filesystems. Sorry. >> >> >> but if your using JFS >> >>http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/index.jsp?top >ic=/com.i >>bm.aix.doc/cmds/aixcmds2/defragfs.htm >> >>guessing you need the jfs tools >> >> >> > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
