[ILUG] Defragmenting

[Jeroen Massar]

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Lisa Muir wrote:
> Just done a quick google to see if I can find a tool for defragmenting
> a disk under linux, but all hits quickly refer to windows.
> 
> Can anyone recommend such a tool?

Recommend no as Ext2/3 _should_ automatically defrag itself, so I
actually never bothered doing one :)

But Debian does have the 'defrag' package, see below, which indicates
that some people have seen a need for it at a certain point.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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Package: defrag
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 208
Maintainer: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.73pjm1-8
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5), file
Filename: pool/main/d/defrag/defrag_0.73pjm1-8_i386.deb
Size: 70884
MD5sum: 81417199e4e53b6633406d48b3460365
SHA1: a4a462dad9457879fcbde9424b38e1604467df16
SHA256: 31c020d42213af5e5ed435050217cc3f4aa57eff1ffe693b4d80590edd54266c
Description: ext2, minix and xiafs filesystem defragmenter
 As a file system is used, data tends to become more and more
 scattered across the disk, degrading performance.  A disk
 defragmenter simply re-organises the data on the disk, so that
 individual files occupy a single sequential set of disk blocks,
 and all the free space on the disk is collected together in a
 single region. This generally means that reading a whole file
 is faster, and disk accesses in general are more efficient.
Tag: admin::filesystem, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, uitoolkit::ncurses

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