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[ale] Fragmentation (was M$ Standing on a bridge)
- Subject: [ale] Fragmentation (was M$ Standing on a bridge)
- From: brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)
- Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:43:13 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <1230653366.6677.9.camel@andrew64> <[email protected]> <1230666932.26000.13.camel@square> <[email protected]>
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 16:12 -0500, Pat Regan wrote:
> 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?
I lowered it. 5% seemed like a lot of space on a 450G filesystem.
-Brian