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Why doesn’t Linux need defragmenting?

Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 4:35 am

That is a question that crops up with regularity on Linux forums when new users are unable to find the defrag tool on their shiny new desktop. Here’s my attempt at giving a simple, non-technical answer as to why some filesystems suffer more from fragmenting than others.

Rather than simply stumble through lots of dry technical explanations, I’m opting to consider that an ASCII picture is worth a thousand words. Here, therefore, is the picture I shall be using to explain the whole thing:

Good read and simple enough even for a dunce like me to follow along folks,Baldy

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