[ALUG] Defragmenting Hard drive

[samwise]

On 31/07/07, Barrys linux mail <bazubuntumail at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> Do you have to defragment and clean up a hard drive in Ubuntu Linux like
> you do with Windoze? As i can't find anything that looks like it at present.
>
> Barry

No, not really.  In fact, you don't really need to do that in Windows
XP with the NTFS filesystem, anymore.  It's a hangover from the
Windows 9x FAT32 days ...

The equivalent in Linux is fsck, which will run automatically about
the 30th time a partition is mounted on boot-up.  Generally, it
doesn't do anything tho - it just checks for errors.

If you're running Ubuntu, I wouldn't worry about it.

Peter.