Defragger: What do you think....

**Ubunted** · April 9th, 2005

The innards of MS at their best I suppose. Amazing.

**jdong** · April 11th, 2005

WOW, that's gonna be my new sig.

**poofyhairguy** · April 11th, 2005

Originally Posted by jdong

If you fill your disk to the 95%+ mark, performance will degrade rapidly, and fragmentation will also get out of control like in Windows.

Oooops. time to buy a new hard disk...

**bigzak** · April 11th, 2005

Originally Posted by panickedthumb

I'd love to know that myself! I know the filesystem is a lot more robust and everything, but you'd THINK there'd be some fragmentation.

The output of fsck will tell you how fragmented, or 'non-contiguous', the file system is. When I obliterated my Slackware ext3 filesystem of 2 years+ to put Ubuntu on, the last fsck said it was 1.01% non-contigous. A FAT partition gets more fragmented that than in 2 days!