Disk fragmentation on Linux

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Do I have to de-fragment my ext3 and FAT32 filesystems on Linux? And if yes how?

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– soandos
Aug 17, 2011 at 16:09 — soandos, Aug 17, 2011 at 16:09

soandos · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-12 21:59:19Z

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Yes to FAT32, no to ext3. See here for tools that can do it.

answered Jun 12, 2011 at 21:59

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ext3 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
Jun 12, 2011 at 22:23
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@TuxRug Unless, of course, you eat up around 90%+ of your disk. But you have bigger problems at that point...
– new123456
Jun 12, 2011 at 22:36
@oneat, marking this as the answer would be appreciated.
– soandos
Aug 7, 2011 at 6:16

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