[TriLUG] Re: defragmenting

[Daniel T. Chen]

Journaling filesystems do not suffer nearly as much from fragmentation
since the disk commits are contiguous (at least this is the case for
ReiserFS). Yet another reason to use a journaling fs. ;)

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Dan Chen                 crimsun at email.unc.edu
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Jerry wrote:

> Hello,
>         I don't know if defragmenting is required but one way to do it
> is to
> put all the files in a tape archive, delete the original files, and
> untar the tape archive back on the clean disk. Tape archives can be
> created on a hard disk and all the files are defragmented in the
> process. There are probably other copy/copy methods of defragmenting.
>         HTH,
> Jerry
>