Hello All

Been a long time since I have posted here...Quick question...Has anyone ever deleted a large number of songs and replaced them with new ones? I recently cleared out about 4 Gigs of old stuff off my 12 Gig player and replaced them with better content. Not knowing if the disc can be defragged through software, I am wondering if this will create access problems and such in the future...any advice would be appreciated. Thanks - John

Technoweenie
12 GB Blue / Grey MK II

The Linux ext2 filesystem doesn't suffer much from fragmentation (better design than FAT), not even the partition containing my news spool is very fragmented.

I wouldn't worry about it...

/Michael

If I remember correctly, it's like this:

- The EXT2 file system doesn't really need much defragging to speak of.

- Even if it did, the caching on the player is so agressive that it doesn't make any difference whether the disk is fragmented or not.

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Tony Fabris

Note that if you do a fsck, you'll generally see what appears to be a LOT of fragmentation on the empeg filesystem - eg, sometimes around 50%. This is nothing to worry about, it just means that 50% of the files have at least one fragment (ie, are not contiguous).

Seeing as, unlike normal FSes, the empeg's data partition consists exactly 50/50 of (a) HUGE files, of 3+MB each and (b) Teensy files, of <1k each, this is expected behaviour and won't affect the performance of your system.

Statistics lie :)

Hugo

Great, I can rest assured. Thank you guys :)

Technoweenie
12 GB Blue / Grey MK II