Defragment utility

As files are created, deleted and expanded; the data-blocks associated with these files get spread over all your disks. The defragment utility allows you to put the consecutive blocks of a file on consecutive places on disk. This utility is of interest when you have large files that you don't like to be scattered over your disks. As a result disk-access times will be reduced and overall system responsivness will improve.

Find out with our free place utility how fragmented your files are.

Performance improvements of 50% have been measured on filesystem that where badly fragmented. Even newly created filesystem (created with backup/restore) can be improved by 20%. Check our benchmarks that clearly shows the performance improvement obtained with the defragmentation utility.

REMARK: AIX V4 contains a defragfs command. This command will only defragment the free space in your filesystem, NOT your files !!!!

Support Matrix

	AIX 4.x	AIX 5.1	AIX 5.2	AIX 5.3
JFS	supported	supported	supported	supported
JFS2	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Starting with version 3.1, as a technology demonstration, online defragmentation is possisble.

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