On Tuesday 18 May 2004 21:12, PM wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:03, Michael Tienhaara wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. Now I'm curious....how? Does it defrag > > "on the fly?" Or, at set times? > > Michael > > It's a completely different file system to MS dos ( in its > various forms), and doesn't fragment files (not so you'd notice, > anyway) so there's no need to defrag.
...which is not entirely true, though. In filesystems like ext2, ext3, ReiserFS and XFS there is no need whatsoever to defrag, but in IBM's JFS is is recommended to do so now and then. Kaj haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 *
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