Defragging Windows

[Brian McKee]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:07 PM, David McNally <david3333333 at gmail.com> wrote:
> As long as someone brought it up... why don't we have to defragment Linux or
> Ubuntu? I know that we don't have to, otherwise there would be a program for
> doing it, but why don't we have to?

Actually, fsck will defrag...   But the reason it's not required is
due to ext3, not linux per se.  The file system does things in such a
way fragmentation doesn't happen (very much) unless your drives are
very full.

The problem isn't Windows, it's FAT and NTFS.

Brian (done splitting hairs now)