[ale] Ubuntu Linux Defrag EXT4

[Ed Cashin]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Ron Frazier
<atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> At the risk of starting a big conflict,
>
> 1) Does Ubuntu 10.04 running EXT4 file system generally need defragmenting
> and optimizing (moving files to a faster part of the drive)?

I found out recently that you can see exactly what's fragmentated
with one command.

  e2fsck -n -E fragcheck {device}

I believe it works on ext4, but I haven't tried it.

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