Hi! Just had power failure. hallelujah ! Now I can test ext3 :) During startup it asked whether it should perform file-system integrity test . I pressed y and after checking it showed something like this (0.5 % non-contiguous) Does this mean my file-system is fragmented? How do I defragment it?
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
Just had power failure. hallelujah ! Now I can test ext3 :) During startup it asked whether it should perform file-system integrity test .
looks like you haven't got journalling on. it shouldn't ask you this at all.
I pressed y and after checking it showed something like this (0.5 % non-contiguous) Does this mean my file-system is fragmented?
no.
How do I defragment it?
you never need to.
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 06:00:31PM +0530, Philip S Tellis wrote:
During startup it asked whether it should perform file-system integrity test .
looks like you haven't got journalling on. it shouldn't ask you this at all.
Well, nopes. On RH, it does ask ( just an added check ). You don't have to choose "Y" though.
I pressed y and after checking it showed something like this (0.5 % non-contiguous) Does this mean my file-system is fragmented?
no.
Well, filesystems *do* get fragmented. Just that after some pre-set number of r/w mounts ( or some time ), it automatically does a "de-frag". That's part of the ext2/3 design ( and in tandem with the mount utility, I guess ... )
How do I defragment it?
you never need to.
yes, you don't need to. It's taken care of! :)
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Ravindra Jaju wrote:
Well, filesystems *do* get fragmented. Just that after some pre-set number of r/w mounts ( or some time ), it automatically does a
0.5% non-contiguous ==> not fragmented.
if it were around the 8-10% mark, then yes.
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