31 Jul
2007
31 Jul
'07
5:44 p.m.
On 31/07/07, Barrys linux mail bazubuntumail@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.