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6 Sep 2024 17:19:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Questionable reasoning  
From: Invisible
Date: 19 Jan 2009 04:57:54
Message: <49744ea2$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Eero Ahonen wrote:
>> It's not a about Linux, it's about filesystems. How many times you have
>> actually managed to measure any benefit from defragging NTFS partition?
> 
> I have, in very rare cases.  But that's when I've created a file in a 
> way that (for example) made 300,000 fragments of it, which happens very 
> rarely. (It was screwing up some other disk analysis tool which 
> apparently decided to allocate fixed memory blocks for stuff and not 
> check they were big enough.)

Ever seen an NTFS partition with 0 bytes free space on it? ;-)


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