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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Why we don't need to defrag UNIX FS? Post 302450364 by methyl on Thursday 2nd of September 2010 11:57:15 AM
Old 09-02-2010
Depends on the filesystem type in both unix and Windows.

Microsoft "fat32" is notorious for fragmentation, but so is unix "ufs".

Microsoft "ntfs" filesystems are broadly comparable to unix "vxfs" filesystems and are less liable to fragment badly unless you let them fill up.
Both can be defragmented with system tools or dump/load.
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filesystem(7)						 Miscellaneous Information Manual					     filesystem(7)

NAME
filesystem - event signalling that filesystems have been mounted SYNOPSIS
filesystem [ENV]... DESCRIPTION
The filesystem event is generated by the mountall(8) daemon after it has mounted all filesystems listed in fstab(5). mountall(8) emits this event as an informational signal, services and tasks started or stopped by this event will do so in parallel with other activity. EXAMPLE
A service that wishes to be running once filesystems are mounted might use: start on filesystem SEE ALSO
mounting(7) mounted(7) virtual-filesystems(7) local-filesystems(7) remote-filesystems(7) all-swaps(7) mountall 2009-12-21 filesystem(7)
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