[ale] Ubuntu Linux Defrag EXT4

[Jim Kinney]

Ditto.

Well, defrag part. Shoe doesn't fit when I put the phone in it.

On Sep 11, 2010 10:29 PM, "Rev. Johnny Healey" <rev.null at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've never felt the need to defragment a Linux filesystem.
>
> sent from my shoe phone
>
> 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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>>
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>>
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