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As the package name suggests, it is not ext4 aware (yet). It requires root permissions, but gives you a view of how many non-contiguous regions a file has. On Ubuntu you can check how fragmented a file is with the utility filefrag, in package e2fsprogs. So it's not like you need to edit video to trigger bad conditions, just a large history database that properly calls fsync() on OSX. Some of this may be masked by OSX's decision to implement POSIX fsync() as a no-op (allowed by the standard, but not very nice).

These sqlite databases contain the browser history, and are used in places to suggest text strings to you, like URL completion or form autofill. The distribution uses the Fast Light Window Manager (FLWM) in a bid to provide a usable GUI that sips as few system resources as possible. The smallest release, Core, is only 11MB while Tin圜ore and CorePlus weigh in at 16MB and 160MB respectively. At one point my profile had a sqlite database with over three thousand fragments. Tiny Core is a small distribution with a tiny footprint. Files like sqlite databases, as used by firefox, will quickly fragment as they deliver small writes regularly as you use the browser. People will give you lies like 'UNIX filesystems never fragment.' They are liars, and you should listen to me instead. IDefrag, Drive Genius and a handful of other utilities will all defragment your hard drive as well. discontinued iDefrag due to this after a few rather unhappy blog posts).

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If done as part of a backup routine the time hit may not be terrible but it's free to do it this way. Prior to receiving the Drobo 8D, I had built a custom Linux (Ubuntu) box with. This is done using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper and requires an extra hard drive. The most popular options for defragmenting a hard drive for OS X I've used and run across are:Ĭloning the hard drive to another drive and back. For your standard user - a near non-issue. The OS itself also defrags 'small' (20MB or smaller) files on the fly since 10.3 (Panther).įragmenting still happens and you can see performance drop because of it, especially in video editing systems or a workflow that requires the ability to read or write large files quickly to the disk.

IDEFRAG LINUX FOR MAC OS X

Speaking for Mac OS X specifically HFS+ does a decent enough job of trying to keep things from being fragmented compared to older systems but it still happens just not on the same scale. All filesystems will fragment but newer ones are more resistant to fragmenting so badly. Useful in certain circumstances but it's less of an issue than it was with FAT or regular HFS.

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