topic Re: defragmenting in linux in Operating System - Linux

defragmenting in linux

Scotty HD — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:58:37 GMT

why there is no concept of defragment in linux ?
in other OS it is there.
what is so different in linux that it does not require defragmentation ?

Scotty

Re: defragmenting in linux

P Muralidhar Kini — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:13:21 GMT

Hi Scotty,

>> why there is no concept of defragment in linux ?
Because there is not much of a need.
The file systems in linux and Unix like Operating system, stores the files in such a
organized/efficient way that defragging is almost not required.

Refer the following link for more details -
http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2006/08/17/why_doesn_t_linux_need_defragmenting

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Murali

Re: defragmenting in linux

Scotty HD — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 04:57:12 GMT

P Muralidhar Kini>>
that link is good. thanks.

Scotty

Re: defragmenting in linux

Scotty HD — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:20:13 GMT

got reply. closing thread.

Scotty