Disk defragmenter in Linux

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Thu Dec 29 22:46:36 UTC 2005


Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 03:41, Tim wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 14:18 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>
>>>But writing to the files *during installation* might result in
>>>fragmentation.
>>
>>Initial installation, no.  Installations of applications after a system
>>has been used for some time, perhaps.
> 
> 
> This is fedora we are talking about.  If you stay up to date you've
> replaced almost everything several times and the files are likely
> scattered all over the disk. 

[snip]

Thank you, that was my point (perhaps I didn't make myself clear).

Mike
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