Re: Defrag

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Lee Helpingstine said:
> The ext2 filesystem (filesystem that linux uses) is a lot less prone to
> fragmentation.

To be more specific, *any* real filesytem (even including NTFS) is
going to be less prone to fragmentation than FAT{12,16,32}.  For that
matter, real operating systems tend to move bits around to avoid
fragmentation if necessary.  This is why ext2 has a "reserved"
overhead that only root can write to, so that there is always some
free disk to avoid fragmentation...  (It also is useful in case a
filesystem is filled and things need to be written to /lost+found or
root needs to use disk to clean up.)

> You'll probably never need to defragment, but there are a
> couple defragmenters out there...

They really aren't necessary.  They're probably dangerous too.

Steve
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