Re: File system defragmentation. Something that can resume after stopping.

On Thu, May 14, 2026, 06:32 Michael <[email protected]> wrote:

> I must ask, does your ext4 fs actually *need* defragmenting? Are read
> operations perceptibly slow/slower now than when the fs was not as full,
> both measured while the disk is *not* being written to?


There may be other reasons to defragment a filesystem. About 20 years ago,
I had a defragmenting tool which also condensed the data toward the
beginning of the partition. I also imagine it's harder to recover
fragmented data from a failed storage device.

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