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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
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Hi Everibody!

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.
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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_

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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,
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.
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)
@noci

Very good advices.
I'm planning to buy another laptop, not very expensive...running Linux.
Thank you for so qualified assistance !