[ale] Ubuntu Linux Defrag EXT4

[Greg Freemyer]

The ext2/ext3/ext4 userspace tools are common.  (e2xxxxxx works for all 3.)

e4defrag is the exception since it is ext4 only.

Greg

On 9/12/10, Ron Frazier <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:
> 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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