[ale] Ubuntu Linux Defrag EXT4

[Rev. Johnny Healey]

I've never felt the need to defragment a Linux filesystem.

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On Sep 11, 2010 10:07 PM, "Ron Frazier" <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com>
wrote:
> Greg,
>
> Thanks for the tip. I had run across e4defrag in my research. It sounds
> like it's not quite fully baked yet. Since defrag is such a low level, and

> system critical function, I don't think I'll try it just yet. I think I'll

> try googling the term you mentioned. I never in a million years would have

> thought to type that in.
>
> I am interested in what everyone thinks as to the need for defrag on EXT4
> in Linux vs the need for it with NTFS and Windows.
>
> Ron
>
> At 9/11/2010 06:23 PM -0400, you wrote:
>>The tool is e4defrag.
>>
>>I have no idea if it is available for ubuntu.
>>
>>It's at least late beta quality and I've seen no data corruption
>>issues with it in at least a year.
>>
>>But Ted Tso, the ext4 maintainer, is uncomfortable that it has had
>>enough testing / code inspection.
>>
>>You might find more by googling for it or the corresponding ioctl().
>>I don't recall the name, but if you google ext4 move extents you
>>should find it.
>>
>>Greg
>
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