[ALUG] Defragmenting Hard drive

[Laurie Brown]

samwise wrote:
> 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 ...

WHAT??!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, massive disagreement from here... NTFS fragments dreadfully, take 
a look after a defrag, then say, install MS Office, then take another look.

Cheers, Laurie.
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