How often do you defrag?

[aidanjm]

perfect disk is scheduled to run at 4 am every morning

 

[cquark]

Never, but then the Linux filesystem is designed not to produce a noticeable amount of fragmentation.

 

[Tifababy]

My Operating Systems CS instructor back in college said that any real file system should never have to be defragged. But I use windows xp so I can play my games, and I defrag about once a year or when I remember....thanks for the reminder, just kicked it off.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: cquark
Never, but then the Linux filesystem is designed not to produce a noticeable amount of fragmentation.

ah, but linux is an operating system, NOT a filesystem. Filesystems for Linux have a variety of pros and cons. Speciffically, which one are you refering to?

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: cquark
Never, but then the Linux filesystem is designed not to produce a noticeable amount of fragmentation.

ah, but linux is an operating system, NOT a filesystem. Filesystems for Linux have a variety of pros and cons. Speciffically, which one are you refering to?

linux is a kernel

 

[Eli]

Never.

 

[archcommus]

Almost never.

 

[edmundoab]

dunno... I guess once in every few months..
say 3 to 4 months once.
or whenever I remember

 

[purbeast0]

every day between the hours of 5am - 9am.

 

[classy]

once a month

 

[maddogchen]

I did it once a month till a certain flurry of activity that left me with < 1 GB HD space and XP wouldn't let me defrag anymore.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: cquark
Never, but then the Linux filesystem is designed not to produce a noticeable amount of fragmentation.

ah, but linux is an operating system, NOT a filesystem. Filesystems for Linux have a variety of pros and cons. Speciffically, which one are you refering to?

I don't know of any Linux filesystem that has any significant issue with fragmentation. I'm partial to ext3 myself.