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LinuxDoesntRequireDefrags™

Jan 31, 2010 6:17 AM
By Delano
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Fragmentation supposedly doesn’t exist in ext* filesystems. And anyone who says otherwise is a paid Microsoft shill.

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#1 Posted by ThomasB on Feb 2, 2010 8:11 PM

No one says that, Ext is just more resistant to fragments than NTFS and FAT.

#2 Posted by Delano on Feb 3, 2010 3:13 AM

http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/items/defragment/index.php?lang=

http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2006/08/17/why_doesn_t_linux_need_defragmenting

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=813854

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/32975-ext3-defragging.html

Yeah, ThomasB. Like, no one says that. Not at all. Uh huh.

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