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 Post subject: Disk fragmentation
PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 1:09 am 
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All,

I'm not familiar with the ext2 fs, but I assume that it can suffer from fragmentation over time. Does anyone have any ideas as to how to defragment a drive formatted for use by NASLite? (i.e. boot to Knoppix, run something?)

I have only a passing familiarity with Linux, so I may simply be missing something obvious here.

Thanks!

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Hello dcorley,

NASLite does not need to be defragmented in the same sense as windows. Each time NASLite is started, all file systems are checked for errors and fixed if necessary. NASLite will mount each storage drive file system only if it checks out and is healthy.

Ext2 does not function in the same way as FAT or NTFS. Here is some detailed information regarding ext2 and fragmentation from the SuSE site:

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/06/ext2frag.html


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 1:21 pm 
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Tony,

Thanks for the info. Too bad windows doesn't use an arrangement like this. :D

Keep up the good work!

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