--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "dbneeley" <dbneeley@...> wrote:
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> Sorry I was rushed earlier and so made the terse response.
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> While NTFS needs a bit less defragging than FAT or VFAT, that by no means it doesn't need it.
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> 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.
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> It is still true, too, that fragmented files exercise the hard disk far more, leading to premature failure and less performance.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> David
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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.
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