[ale] Ubuntu Linux Defrag EXT4

[Ron Frazier]

Ed,

Thanks for the note.  So far, it seems not much is available for EXT4 and 
several people say it's not very necessary.  I'm a little leery about 
trying what appears to be and EXT2.  Maybe someone else knows if this works.

Ron

At 9/12/2010 08:29 PM -0400, you wrote:
>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.
>
>--
>   Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>
>   http://noserose.net/e/
>   http://www.coraid.com/


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