--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "dbneeley" <dbneeley@...> wrote:
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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <pfrederick1@> wrote:
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> > I heard that NTFS did not need to be defragmented like vfat did, and the only reason Microsoft still ships defrag is because people ask for it, not because you actually need it.
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> You heard wrong.
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> David
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Apparently I am not the only one. This was exactly what I heard from about the same time frame too:
"The superior disk management capabilities of NTFS mean that fragmentation is reduced compared to FAT. Unfortunately, this led to a popular myth--that NTFS volumes have no fragmentation, and therefore never need defragmentation. Microsoft unwittingly exacerbated this problem by not providing any utility to defragment NTFS partitions in Windows NT, implying that defragmentation was unnecessary."
From:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/ntfs/relFrag-c.html
Technically it is TRUE in my case being as I've NEVER defragmented an NTFS partition in my life and I have not suffered in any way. But then again I don't do Windows and that might have something to do with it ...
Shame Microsoft still has a negative impact on my life anyways though. Thanks Dave.
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