It's something you used to have to do on Windows disks. "De-Fragment".
When you write a lot of small files, then delete some of them, the "allocation bitmap" for the disk gets to look like a swiss cheese -- lots of little holes. The little holes get used for the next file(s) you write, and those files become "fragmented". The net effect is that reading and writing files from a fragmented disk takes longer than from an un-fragmented disk, where the files are mostly contiguous. Sometimes a _lot_ longer for a really badly fragged disk. People used to sell utilities for de-frag'ing windows disks, for lots of money. Nowadays, it's cheaper not to bother... when a disk becomes fragged, you just throw it away and get a newer, bigger, cheaper, one... (;->) Rick > >> um...whats "defrag"? >> >> Mark > > .. ya know.. it's for taking off the frag. > > Damian
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