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Does ext3 fragment when run at near-full capacity?

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I know that one of the main drawing points for ex3 and other journaling filesystems is that they do not fragment like NTFS and such. I once heard someone say that ext3 actually would fragment when operated at near-full capacity for a length of time. Is there any truth to this? I've been running my ā€¦

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Technically, yes, it can fragment if there is not much free space available, and no, it doesn't clean up after itself. To check the fragmentation level of a partition: and to see how fragmented a particular file is: Here is an article about how to dā€¦

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