Re: Disk defragmenter in Linux

[Peter Gordon]

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 17:27 -0700, Guy Fraser wrote:
> Stuffing a lot of files into a directory is a bad practice,
> and Red Hat is well known for it. Check /usr/bin, /etc and 
> a few others. Many of the files would [normally] be located 
> under /usr/local.

Pardon my probable misunderstanding, but isn't this the whole idea
of the standard filesystem layout for Unix/Unix-like operating systems?

I.e., if it's not installed through the system package manager, it has
its tree of /lib, /sbin, /bin, /man, /share, etc under /usr/local;
whereas if it *is* installed through the system packaging, it has its
own /lib, /sbin, /bin, /share, /man, etc layout tree under / or /usr,
depending on various factors like partitioning or network-mounting /usr,
etc.