Is there a Defrag program with GUI for Linux?

[scarfase99]

i know there's the program defrag (specifically for Debian), but that's just command line. is there anything out there that has a GUI?

 

[Spyro]

Defrag is quite useless for Linux and most non-MS operating systems, in general. I've never seen a non-FAT filesystem with more than %5.00 percent fragmentation. However, I can't speak for NTFS, because I've never really used it yet.

 

[Nothinman]

That defrag program was originally done as a proof-of-concept basically, I wouldn't use it. I'm not saying it doesn't work, but generally there's no need to defrag unix filesystems because the allocation schemes they use are generally smart enough to keep related data together.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Why would you want a gui for it anyways?

 

[mjquilly]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Why would you want a gui for it anyways?

duh! everyone knows that no app is worthwhile if it doesn't have a GUI!!!

 

[Armitage]

I've never seen a defrag program for a unix filesystem ... or a need for one. Unless you mean a linux utility for defragging mounted FAT or NTFS volumes. Never seen that either.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Why would you want a gui for it anyways?

I'm thinking that its the typical atitude of an ex-Windows* user.

 

[Nothinman]

I've never seen a defrag program for a unix filesystem ... or a need for one

You havn't looked very hard then, there's been one for ext2 filesystems for some time now and the XFS utils come with xfs_fsr.

 

[Armitage]

Really? I've never noticed the kind of slowdowns on old ext2 filesystems that are typical on old FAT systems. And the "conventional wisdom" I've seen on the subject was that they weren't needed. So I guess I diidn't look very hard on that basis.

 

[Nothinman]

Really? I've never noticed the kind of slowdowns on old ext2 filesystems that are typical on old FAT systems. And the "conventional wisdom" I've seen on the subject was that they weren't needed. So I guess I diidn't look very hard on that basis.

You're 100% correct, but that doesn't mean someone didn't write one. I'm sure XFS only comes with one because large multimedia files are easier to work with when they're contiguous.