The way I understand defragmenting, is that basically the disk-access algorithms used in linux filesystems are more efficient than those used in Windows filesystems; the end result is that you have to constantly defrag your fat32 partitions or they'll slow right down, whereas defragging on linux doesn't benefit you as much (sure, having the file defragged would speed it up, but the algorithm is designed so that fragmentation doesn't slow it down as much, so the benefit of defragging is minimal).
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Re:YES, Defragmenting
Posted by: Rob Park on October 11, 2003 05:26 AM#