Youhave full control over which drives, folders and files you defrag. Or simply use the default settings and let Defraggler do the work for you. Simple enough for every day users and flexible enough for advanced users.
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Hard disk drives fragment data because they are random by nature. Consisting of an actuator, platter, spindle, actuator arm, and read/write head (among other parts), hard drives work by storing and seeking out information on a rotating disk.
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I asked -to-speed-up-my-computer in another post and one answer was to run disk defrag. I have done this before and in the majority of cases (with multiple computers not just one) it seems to actually slow the computer down vs speeding the computer up. Why is this and what is going on?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with defragmenting your hard drive. Defragmenting reorders the data on the hard drive so that it is contiguous. "They say" that you will see a noticeable difference in speed, specifically faster. This was more true in the past, than it is now. Modern OSs, drives, and file systems benefit little from defragmentation. Yes, there are some cases where it makes a noticeable difference, but those are rare. Those occur on heavily used file systems where there are lots of writes/deletes going on. However, that is not the typical home or office user. A whole industry has popped up around defragmentation, and I personally feel its mostly snake oil. There are some benefits from advanced defragmenters, like moving data to the innermost track, etc. However, pure defragmention really provides little or no noticeable improvement.
Now as for your computers slowing down after a completed defrag... I honestly believe its not true. I think you are consciously looking for a difference in speed (which probably didnt happen) and therefore, subconsciously you think its slower.
I'm looking for a tool that can give me a visual representation of my ext4 fragmentation. Something similar to how Defraggler, Puran Defrag, and many others (UltraDefrag being the best) display your disk... (most good UIs display the files in the block you're hovering your mouse over)
On Linux file systems, fragmentation is typically less then 5%, often 1 or 2% unless the disk is 99% full. In the event of a full disk, you can see significant fragmentation, but in that case the problem is a full disk.
So, bottom line, defragmentation is not a large enough problem on Linux to affect performance, so there are no significant defragmentation tools and you are sort of wasting your time worrying about it.
3) If you can't get a larger disk for any valid reason, then simply copy the whole lot (or by large chunks) to another disk, then copy it back. The advanced EXT4 FS writes it back contiguously eliminating fragmentation. This can be scheduled as a cron.daily job using Gnome Scheduler for the converts coming from Windows.
People seem to forget that a good modern defragger is not just defrager, but optimiser as well. Different areas of the hard disk platter read at different speeds. The closer to the centre of the disk, the slower the file read is. A modern defragger will analyse file usage and place frequently read files towards the outer edge of the platter and less frequently used files are moved towards the centre. Some even allow files that are flagged as archives to be pull as close to the centre as possible. I have seen large files on my Linux system broken into 1000's of segments.
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You could say that defragmentation is like cleaning house for your Servers or PCs, it picks up all of the pieces of data that are spread across your hard drive and puts them back together again, nice and neat and clean.
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Regardless of the sophistication of the hardware installed, the SAN appears to Windows as one logical drive. So when Windows reads a fragmented file, it has to logically find all those thousands of pieces, and that takes thousands of separate I/O operations to piece it all together before it is fed to the user. That exerts a heavy toll on performance.
As noted, stripe sets are created, in part, for performance reasons. Access to the data on a stripe set is usually faster than access to the same data would be on a single disk, because the I/O load is spread across more than one disk. Therefore, an operating system can perform simultaneous seeks on more than one disk and can even have simultaneous reads or writes occurring.
With file fragmentation causing the host operating system to generate additional unnecessary disk I/Os (more overhead on CPU and RAM) performance suffers. In most cases the randomness of I/O requests, due to fragmentation and concurrent data requests, the blocks that make up the file will be physically scattered in uneven stripes across a SAN LUN/aggregate. This causes even greater degradation in performance.
Fortunately, there are simple solutions to NTFS file system fragmentation; fragmentation prevention and defragmentation. Both approaches solve file fragmentation at the source, the local disk file system.
The benefit of preventing fragmentation in an email server environment is no different than preventing fragmentation or defragmenting any other system. It simply takes less time and system resources to access a contiguous file than one broken into many individual pieces. This improves not only response time but also the reliability of the system. Thorough database maintenance requires a combination of disk defrag and the email server utilities (internal record/index defragmentation), to achieve optimum performance and response time.
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