[GRLUG] No defragging

[Tim Schmidt]

On 1/30/07, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>  A friend said he paid $40 for a program
>  to defrag his hard drive.
>
>  His machine is a Mac running OS X.
>
>  I've never heard of defragging a hard
>  drive under Linux or Unix.
>
>  Does it make an sense?

Yeah.  Depends on your workload.  There's a defrag app for ext2, but
it obviously comes with data integrity warnings.  Generally speaking,
modern linux FSs do excellently on file fragmentation so long as you
have a fair amount of free space on the drive during the creation of
new files.  Of course, on *nix, the best defrag program will always be
tar.  :)

--tim