[ale] Ubuntu Linux Defrag EXT4

[Jim Kinney]

Nah. *NIX assumes anyone running something like that knows what they're
doing and thus responds in a typical anti-social fashion.

On Sep 13, 2010 12:03 PM, "Ron Frazier" <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com>
wrote:
> Greg,
>
> Thanks for the tip. Based on other comments, I don't think I'll be
> defragging Linux just yet.
>
> A few people mentioned corrupting a Linux / Unix HDD by running utilities
> while the partition is mounted. When I run chkdisk on my Windows system in

> read / write mode, it pops up a dialog that says it can't run the test now

> because the system is in use. It offers an option to run the test the next

> time I reboot, and I click yes or no. Linux should offer me the same
> courtesy, in my opinion.
>
> Ron
>
> At 9/12/2010 10:11 PM -0400, you wrote:
>>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
>> >
>
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