--- In [email protected], "dbneeley" <dbneeley@...> wrote: > > Sorry I was rushed earlier and so made the terse response. > > While NTFS needs a bit less defragging than FAT or VFAT, that by no means it > doesn't need it. > > Also, a fragmented disk, as one of our list members discovered, is more > likely to have rather catastrophic results when resizing its partition--it is > far more likely to fail and take your data with it. > > It is still true, too, that fragmented files exercise the hard disk far more, > leading to premature failure and less performance. > > The only Windows file systems that should not be defragged are on solid state > disks, where performance differences are generally unmeasurable and where you > don't want to do too many write operations and reduce the life of an > expensive disk. > > At the present rate of progress with SSDs, I'll probably put one in my laptop > by next Summer. Meanwhile, I do defrag the NTFS partitions on this drive > occasionally--I have one for my Windows 7 dual boot and one data partition I > wanted to read from both OS--Linux and Windoes--so it is also NTFS. However, > both are used seldom enough that I don't bother to defrag more than once a > quarter or so. Were I using them daily, I'd still be defragging probably once > or twice a month at most. > > David >
Just whenever you want to see random squares seem to move around and change colors right? Somebody ought to make a screensaver that looks like defrag! Now I'm curious as to which Linux filesystem you use and how often you defragment it. I can't seem to find drivers for Windows 7 and any Linux filesystems. I guess you're lucky Microsoft still uses NTFS. I'm surprised they haven't replaced it to make interoperability more difficult. Those sly dogs ... I know if I was one of their big honchos I'd have had that done. ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
