Rick Thomas wrote: > 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...yeah. we knew "what" it was. guess I should have prefaced that last remark with a special comment that let anyone else know that it was a sarcastic tongue-in-cheek question. Mark
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