[olug] Anyone defragging their linux servers?

[Obi-Wan]

> the only situation i could think of would be if you installed on a FAT
> partition. for ext3, on a low use web server, it's unheard of in my
> experience. if the available tools to do such a thing are potentially
> destructive, then i would say it's a no-brainer.

Even my desktop's home directory, which is 96% full and sees fairly
heavy R/W access, is only 8% non-contiguous.  In nearly 20 years as
a professional Unix sysadmin, I've never defragged a Unix filesystem.
There's just no point in any situation I've seen.

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