<p>I've never felt the need to defragment a Linux filesystem.</p>
<p>sent from my shoe phone</p>
<p>On Sep 11, 2010 10:07 PM, "Ron Frazier" <<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com">atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Greg,<br>> <br>> Thanks for the tip. I had run across e4defrag in my research. It sounds <br>
> like it's not quite fully baked yet. Since defrag is such a low level, and <br>> system critical function, I don't think I'll try it just yet. I think I'll <br>> try googling the term you mentioned. I never in a million years would have <br>
> thought to type that in.<br>> <br>> I am interested in what everyone thinks as to the need for defrag on EXT4 <br>> in Linux vs the need for it with NTFS and Windows.<br>> <br>> Ron<br>> <br>> At 9/11/2010 06:23 PM -0400, you wrote:<br>
>>The tool is e4defrag.<br>>><br>>>I have no idea if it is available for ubuntu.<br>>><br>>>It's at least late beta quality and I've seen no data corruption<br>>>issues with it in at least a year.<br>
>><br>>>But Ted Tso, the ext4 maintainer, is uncomfortable that it has had<br>>>enough testing / code inspection.<br>>><br>>>You might find more by googling for it or the corresponding ioctl().<br>
>>I don't recall the name, but if you google ext4 move extents you<br>>>should find it.<br>>><br>>>Greg<br>> <br>> <br>> --------------------------<br>> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to <br>
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