Re: Disk defragmenter in Linux

[Tim]

On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 14:32 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> My own experience shows me just that. My /home partition was almost
> full with only 2% freespace. During that time, my Kmail became very
> slow such as when downloading email or when I moved between mail
> folders. The harddisk was just spinning all the time.

Most hard drives spin all the time, anyway...  ;-)
> Then I copy all my files and mails from the /home partition and move
> them all to another partition. Then delete them from /home. After
> that, I copied some of the files and mail back to /home in order to
> keep 20% of /home free. So far the performance is ok.

A too full drive is a problem in itself, defragging a drive (on any
system) in that condition is only rescheduling the inevitable.