Comments on: How to Repair and Defragment Linux System Partitions and Directories

By: kar

kar — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 17:40:27 +0000

Even though the filesystem prevents defragmenting. HDD operation is slowing down due to the dispersion of data, you still need to defragment regularly not for fragmentation but to bring files back in sequential order.

By: David Ganz

David Ganz — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 21:01:55 +0000

Very Useful article! Many thanks…

By: inukaze

inukaze — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 02:29:05 +0000

Conclusion : you are assuming all users on the internet reading this, are using "ext4" filesystem, ignoring for complete, exist another like : ext2, ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, jfs, xfs, zfs, btrfs, etc. and for each filesystem the def rag its different. And in the title should be something like "How to Repair and Defragment Linux ext4 Partitions"

By: Flo

Flo — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 06:19:32 +0000

In reply to Flo.

Oh and you did not update the text to include the mounting of the filesystem.

By: Flo

Flo — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 06:18:02 +0000

Erm you say you would check with e2fsck If it is necessary to defrag the partition but then don’t do that and instead just check/repair the filesystem and run a program that is called e4defrag.
You do not say what it is doing.