Re: DEFRAG IN UNIX

Most UNIX's these days have 'automatic' defragmentation, probably find yours does aswell. Yes, fragmentation occurs, but that alone should not be enough to hurt your performance. Tried an update statistics? brett Luis Carlos Diaz Otero wrote: > > Thanks for everybody who gave me some help over adding > swap in SCO OPEN SERVER, i fixed the problem. > > I have 7.3 IDS and 4.2 SE (yes, yet) running on SCO > and the cooked files SE uses, are (i think) over the > entire filesystem and the overall perfomance goes > down, so on a periodical basis might bu useful defrag > the filesystem. > > Is there any way to "defrag" a filesystem in UNIX?. > > In a multiuser environment as UNIX is, continuous > wites and deletes leave the disc with holes; i think > the only way to workaround is (in maintenance mode of > course) > 1. Backing up the entire filesystem (with permissions, > ownership, sticky bits and so on) > 2. Deleting the filesystem > 3. Umounting the filesystem > 4. Runing fsck over the umounted filesystem (to fix > aby error) > 5. Mounting the filesystem > 6. Restoring the backup > 7. Going back to multiuser mode. > > Has anybody another idea? > > ===== > ______________________________________ > Luis Carlos D'az Otero > ALCANOS DE COLOMBIA S.A. E.S.P > Carrera 9 # 7-25 > Neiva (Huila (Colombia)) > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Obtenga su direcci'n de correo-e gratis @yahoo.com > en http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett's 11th law of UNIX administration... Users think that Y2K was a non-event... well... They havn't got our overtime bills yet :) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Geer - UNIX Admin/Analyst/Programmer - Intratex Holdings. Tel. +27 31 717 4000 Direct. +27 31 717 4146 Fax. +27 31 717 4001 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The little voices are talking to me again, telling me to reach for a keyboard and type rm -rf /* last week they had me rm -rf `echo $MANPATH | sed 's/:/ /g'` now I fear I have no answers -----------------------------------------------------------------