[ale] Fragmentation (was M$ Standing on a bridge)

[Brian Pitts]

On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 16:12 -0500, Pat Regan wrote:
> Brian Pitts wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 11:31 -0500, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> >> Thanksgiving, he was running that weird rewrite-the-whole-disk thing
> >> that windows seems to require periodically
> > 
> > In all fairness, I've managed to terribly fragment an ext3 filesystem by
> > filling it to capacity with large files. E.G.
> 
> Was the problem caused by lowering the reserved blocks on the filesystem
> from 5%, or did you manage to get that fragmented even with the reserved
> blocks?

I lowered it. 5% seemed like a lot of space on a 450G filesystem.

-Brian