James Knott wrote:
Jerry Houston wrote:
For years, defragging hard drives has been part of my routine system maintenance on Windows systems. It occurred to me that I've now had Linux systems up and running long enough that it might be a good idea to defragment their drives, to make sure everything is running as smoothly as possible.
I haven't been able to find any information about drive defragmentation for Linux file systems. Searching for "defrag" with the software installer turned up no results. Is it called something else in Linux land?
Is defragmentation possible for Linux file systems? Is it needed occasionally, as it is on Windows systems?
Most of the file systems Linux uses are fragmentation resistant, so defragging isn't necessary. It's another area where Windows is behind the times. Fragmentation resistant file systems have been around for many years.
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