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Could you point a good tool / strategy to a HD under Lubuntu defragmentation?
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Could you point a good tool / strategy to a HD under Lubuntu defragmentation?
Thanks in advance
Could you point a good tool / strategy to a HD under Lubuntu defragmentation?
Thanks in advance
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It looks I have a lot of space to use yet:
marianne@marianne-Inspiron-1525:~$ df -h
Sist. Arq. Tam. Usado Disp. Uso% Montado em
udev 964M 0 964M 0% /dev
tmpfs 199M 1,3M 198M 1% /run
/dev/sda1 110G 14G 91G 14% /
tmpfs 993M 12M 981M 2% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5,0M 4,0K 5,0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 993M 0 993M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 199M 24K 199M 1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdb1 15G 1,3G 14G 9% /media/marianne/LUBUNTU 17_
That depends... i have a 8TB NAS with backups stored on it (totals about 6TB).... so YMMV wrt. to data storage.
Running some tool that will warn with 25% free space left might be a wise option, then you do have an early warning.
Defragiing is a little subject..... there are more important things to look after,
Running some tool that will warn with 25% free space left might be a wise option, then you do have an early warning.
Defragiing is a little subject..... there are more important things to look after,
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Well...
Mine is an old laptop I'm trying to develop some PHP apps.
I desired to make it faster by defrag. It's not the case.
Mine is an old laptop I'm trying to develop some PHP apps.
I desired to make it faster by defrag. It's not the case.
For laptops look for SSD's they are 1) faster, 2) more robust. while i had rotating disks i needed a new disk every year due to bad sectors etc. or plain failing disk.
The current SSD is now 3 or 4 years old and in the 2nd laptop. still going strong.
Laptop disks are slow anyway because the need to conserve energy. (slower rotation ==> larger delays....
most are 5400 RPM, you could try a 7200 RPM disk. Also laptop disks are set to stop rotating very quickly, so they need to restart often.. same reason conserve energy...
It should be possible to block copy the disk to the SSD if the SSD is sleightly larger than the source. (using ddrescue f.e. started from a CDrom)
The current SSD is now 3 or 4 years old and in the 2nd laptop. still going strong.
Laptop disks are slow anyway because the need to conserve energy. (slower rotation ==> larger delays....
most are 5400 RPM, you could try a 7200 RPM disk. Also laptop disks are set to stop rotating very quickly, so they need to restart often.. same reason conserve energy...
It should be possible to block copy the disk to the SSD if the SSD is sleightly larger than the source. (using ddrescue f.e. started from a CDrom)
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@noci
Very good advices.
I'm planning to buy another laptop, not very expensive...running Linux.
Very good advices.
I'm planning to buy another laptop, not very expensive...running Linux.
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Thank you for so qualified assistance !
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Thank you for so qualified replies by now.
I'm going to study it.
As I could feel defrag in Linux env is a little complex subject.