OT: Re: A few questions...
Rashkae
ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Thu Apr 9 18:07:31 UTC 2009
Kyle Smith wrote:
>>
> I haven't defragmented a computer since Windows 98SE. Most modern
> filesystems (NTFS, Ext2/3, HFS+) are *much* more intelligent in how they
> store their data than the old FAT32 filesystem, and specifically Windows
> 9x was.
You really need to play closer attention to NTFS.. it's not nearly as
intelligent as you think. NTFS is the only file system I know of that
will fragment a new file, into hundreds of fragments, on a HD that is
almost all contiguous free space.. it's just flabbergasting.(tm)
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