Disk defragmenting (was "Re: No Sound :(")

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, November 16, 2010 08:52 AM, Mark wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Douglas Pollard<dougpol1 at verizon.net>  wrote:
>>
>> That is very intersting and I had certainly not thought about it in that
>> light.  I am using FAT with the idea that both ubuntu and XP could work
>> in it. Maybe there is another file type that both can work with?  The
>> speed  does not matter to me a whole lot but there is an advantge For
>> Premier if the drive is faster.   Of course even in need of
>> defragmenting the drive is likely much faster than the usb cable It's
>> running off of, I would guess.  Back when I was working with much
>> smaller drives over time if not fragmented there would be a definite
>> increase in crashing events.  I have not noticed that on the bigger
>> drives I have been using the last couple of years. You are likely right
>> the small percentage of loss is likely irrelevant today and especially
>> with really large drives a 1tb or so.    I probably could use a faster
>> computer too. This machine is 2003 model and they have come a long way
>> since then.  One thing I have decided is to stay one upgrade behind all
>> the time with Ubuntu.  By that time most of the bugs are out.
>>                   Thanks  Doug
>
> If it's critical to have XP and Linux work on it, I'd recommend NTFS -
> it's as far above FAT and VFAT as any Unix file system.  There are
> drivers for NTFS for Linux aplenty - check in Synaptic.  (I always
> load an NTFS driver, but for other reasons, like repairing Windows
> disks....  :-)
>

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