Why and How to Defragment Linux hard Drive?
HTML clipboard Do you see your Linux system running slow? The one reason could be the fragmentation in the hard disk. Sounds strange to hear? Till now, you might have heard that Linux file system don’t need defragging as whole of the system is organized and lets file saving in a sequential way. But, this is not true up to 100%. Though the noticeable effects could be late (almost when 95% of hard disk becomes full), but the fragmentation in the Linux file systems is the truth. Now where fragmentation means the file is lying in the broken pieces, spread over different parts of hard drive, defragmentation is the exactly reverse process of making sure that no file is fragmented. Each of the file, you have, should lie on one contiguous area of the hard disk so that there is no stress on the file system and read/write head to access the data. More fragments of the file means there are more difficulties for Linux OS to perform. Your system may run slow as now it has to seek many areas of the
