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Do I have to de-fragment my ext3 and FAT32 filesystems on Linux? And if yes how?
oneat
Posted 2011-06-12T21:15:38.847
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Disk fragmentation on Linux
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Yes to FAT32, no to ext3. See here for tools that can do it.
soandos
Posted 2011-06-12T21:15:38.847
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2ext3 does fragment (All rewritable filesystems do), but ext3 is much better at avoiding high fragmentation levels than FAT32, so chances are you'll never hit a noticeable performance penalty anyway. – TuxRug – 2011-06-12T22:23:51.087
1@TuxRug Unless, of course, you eat up around 90%+ of your disk. But you have bigger problems at that point... – new123456 – 2011-06-12T22:36:19.027
@oneat, marking this as the answer would be appreciated. – soandos – 2011-08-07T06:16:07.750
did my answer answer your question? – soandos – 2011-08-17T16:09:25.367