[ale] Fragmentation (was M$ Standing on a bridge)

Pat Regan thehead at patshead.com
Sat Jan 3 16:12:40 EST 2009


Brian Pitts wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 11:31 -0500, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>> Thanksgiving, he was running that weird rewrite-the-whole-disk thing
>> that windows seems to require periodically
> 
> In all fairness, I've managed to terribly fragment an ext3 filesystem by
> filling it to capacity with large files. E.G.

Was the problem caused by lowering the reserved blocks on the filesystem
from 5%, or did you manage to get that fragmented even with the reserved
blocks?

Pat

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