[ale] Ubuntu Linux Defrag EXT4

[Paul Cartwright]

On Mon September 13 2010, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>One of the features of ext4 is that it supports _on-line_
>defragmentation.

mine is ext3..

> For late versions of the Windows operating environment (distinct from
> operating system!) running on DOS, including 9x/Me, the defragmenter
> needed the cooperation of the 32-bit disk I/O and filesystem drivers.
> Additionally, whenever any application on the system wrote anything to
> the disk, the defragmentation process would have to start over again,
> which was a royal pain in the butt.  Not wholly unexpected, though,
> since the FAT family was _not_ designed for concurrency.  I don't know
> if later versions of Windows managed to work around that limitation for
> FAT-formatted volumes or not; I don't believe that it is an issue for
> NTFS volumes when Windows is defragmenting them.

yeah, screensavers did it all the time.. I always thought it best to defrag in 
safe mode..

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Paul Cartwright
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