I’ve never had to defragment the ext4 drives in my server. Ext4 is fairly resistant to fragmentation.
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HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Defragmenting…
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
It’s not really Ext4 doing that, it’s a bunch of tricks in the OS layer and the way apps write files to storage that limits it.
You’ll see it if you use something like a BT client without pre-allocation, those files can get heavily fragmented depending on the download speed.
T156@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One of the worst things that the newer Windows versions did is get rid of that little view of defragmenting. It was much more interesting than watching a number slowly tick up.
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
Man, I used to LOVE defragmenting drives. I felt like I was actually doing something productive, and I just got to sit back and watch the magic happen.
Now I know better.