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defragment hard disk

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As a Windows user, I was accustomed to defragmenting my hard disk drive at regular intervals. But there appears to be no provision for this in Ubuntu 8.10. Am I missing something???

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Koen (koen-beek) said : 		#1

Defragging your disk is not needed on linux - (unless you would use FAT or NTFS filesystems which are dos/windows file systems)

ext2 and ext3 linux filesystems don't really need defraggers

http://www.salmar.com/pipermail/wftl-lug/2002-March/000603.html
http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2006/08/17/why_doesn_t_linux_need_defragmenting

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