Fat32 Defrag?

[Andrew Jarrett]

On 6/28/07, manchicken <manchicken at notsosoft.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:34:58 Andrew M wrote:
> > As many of you know, Kubuntu doesn't need a defragmentation tool (woo
> > hoo!).  The problem is, not everyone can use the wonderful Ext3 file
> > system that Kubuntu does.  That's why most people use Fat32 for their
> > flash drives.  There's a problem: Fat32 needs to be fragmented.  Is
> > there a Kubuntu tool that will defrag Fat32???
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Andrew Min
>
> Do flash drives fragment?  That may sound like a stupid question--probably
> is--but I didn't think that they did.

I don't see why they wouldn't fragment, but I am not sure how much of
a gain one would get from defragmenting a flash drive.  I haven't
heard of any programs for linux that do this, but I googled and found
this (from http://usalug.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=82150 ):

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untested but:

1. get and configure dosemu

2. get and configure dfrag-0.4

3. run dosemu, which will create a ~/dosemu/freedos

4. unzip dfrag into ~/dosemu/freedos/

5. edit /etc/dosemu.conf to add /dev/your-usb-hd to the drive list

6. run dosemu, cd into /defrag

7. run defrag

Taken from gentoo forums - note as above, untested and op gave no results
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HTH,
Andrew

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