Re: [opensuse] Defragging: possible?  necessary? James Knott wrote:
> Rajko M. wrote:
>> On Sunday 17 February 2008 11:29:45 am James Knott wrote:
>>  
>>> Philipp Thomas wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:28:13 -0500, James Knott wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> It's another area where Windows is behind the times.
>>>>>         
>>>> Not really. NTFS is rather fragmentation resistent. It's only FAT and
>>>> its decendants that lacks considerably.
>>>>
>>>> Philipp
>>>>       
>>> Then why does the defragmenter in XP show how fragmented NTFS 
>>> partions are?
>>>     
>>
>> Fragmentation resistant doesn't mean fragmentation free.
>>   
> I never said it does.  Fragmentation resistant file systems will 
> fragment, as they approach capacity.  But even an NTFS partition that's 
> only using a fraction of it's capacity may still require defragging.  
> Fire up the defragger on any NTFS partition that hasn't been defragged 
> for a while and tell me what you see.

And often with only 10% - 30% of the partition filled!


