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On rotational disks fragmentation may become a problem in some rare use cases. Then you can defragment your btrfs. | On rotational disks fragmentation may become a problem in some rare use cases. Then you can defragment your btrfs. | ||
===== | ===== Defragmentation (not recommended) ===== | ||
This is NOT the same as defragmentation in older | This is NOT the same as defragmentation in older Windows file systems. Btrfs does NOT require defragmentation as normal maintenance. Only do this if you can measure a huge read performance loss because a specific file/database is fragmented! | ||
{{BoxDanger|Defragment only these specific files|Defragmenting an entire Btrfs volume does not increase its speed, it just wears out the device}} | |||
=See Also= | =See Also= | ||