Re: Disk defragmenter in Linux

[Peter Gordon]

On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 12:35 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> It is a good policy to never exceed 80% usage on any partition,
> precisely for performance reasons. I am not certain how much each
> filesystem type (Ext2/3, XFS, FAT32) is affected, but 80...85% is a good
> number to keep in mind. Exceed it, and the performance usually starts to
> drop dramatically.

Agreed in full. I generally make my partitions a lot larger
than I expect them to be used, for this very reason. Granted, it could
be easier for me, as disk space really *is* inexpensive where I live;
whereas it may not be in other areas...