<p>Ditto.</p>
<p>Well, defrag part. Shoe doesn't fit when I put the phone in it.</p>
<p>On Sep 11, 2010 10:29 PM, "Rev. Johnny Healey" <<a href="mailto:rev.null@gmail.com">rev.null@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> I've never felt the need to defragment a Linux filesystem.<br>
> <br>> sent from my shoe phone<br>> <br>> On Sep 11, 2010 10:07 PM, "Ron Frazier" <<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com">atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com</a>><br>> wrote:<br>>> 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>> <br>>> system critical function, I don't think I'll try it just yet. I think I'll<br>
> <br>>> try googling the term you mentioned. I never in a million years would have<br>> <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>>> call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy<br>
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