On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, michael hast wrote:
> Is there a utility that is used to defrag files on a Linux system,
Not that I know, other than mkfs, but that has rather severe side effects.
> and is it advantageous to do so?
I've heard that extN doesn't get fragmented, but I don't buy it.
_Resistant_ to fragmentation, I'll buy.
> Also, is it as dangerous as it seems that it could be to run the Windows
> defragmenter on my shared partition? Thanks!
I don't see a problem with doing whatever with it when Linux isn't around.
I do it all the time with a thumb drive that I use for sneakernet (and also
boots SuSE 9.x), and a partition or two on my (formerly-)USB hard drive. I
take them to XP, it makes the changes I say (more or less). Then I take it
to Linux, same deal. Neither has a problem with it. When any OS mounts a
partition, it scans the filesystem to some extent. So as long as it writes
the changes to disk (which any well-behaved OS should do), you can do
whatever you want.
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