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[NMLUG] Further advamtage of GHOST
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:26:42PM -0700, Steve Browne wrote:
> I didn't mention it the first time around, but Symantic GHOST for DOS
> defragments a FAT32 volume, in its default setting, as it clones HDD
> to HDD. Better, judging from performance, than all those time-waster
> defrag apps. I haven't tested to discover if it also does so with an
> ext2 or ext3 fs.
>
> I know, you are all going to cry, "Linux doesn't need defragging!"
> Well, not much, but it would be cool to include the service in a
> cloning process.
I don't generall defrag my ext2/3 partitions but there is a util called defrag
for ext2.
"defrag - ext2, minix and xiafs filesystem defragmenter
As a file system is used, data tends to become more and more scattered
across the disk, degrading performance. A disk defragmenter simply
re-organises the data on the disk, so that individual files occupy a single
sequential set of disk blocks, and all the free space on the disk is
collected together in a single region. This generally means that reading a
whole file is faster, and disk accesses in general are more efficient."
>
> Steve
> Stephen B. Browne
> sbrowne@ix.netcom.com
> "Ubi bene, ibi patria."
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