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Originally Posted by WanderingKnight
What is considered a high amount of fragmentation, anyways? I'd do a check on my ext3 /home folder, but I'd have to enable the root account (in order to unmount it) and I'm too lazy to do it. By researching (read: Google search), I found out that, most of times, ext3 doesn't go beyond 3% of fragmentation, 5% at worst. And, if I remember correctly, my Windows drives used to have a 10-20% of fragmentation. I could be remembering wrong, though.
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When I said it does work only good with lots of free space, that was not because of additional fragmentation so much... but because of performance.