Re: Does the vfat partition need defrag under Gnu/Linux ?

[Muzer <muzerakascooby@gmail.com>]

Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:41:09AM -0300, Hashimoto wrote:
>
>   
> > I have an external disk actually using one vfat partition type, so I'm
> > wondering if it's necessary to defrag it since I used to save and
> > remove a lot and large files. 
> >     
>
> This isn't really a Linux question; it's a filesystem question. FAT
> partitions don't handle fragmentation well, so if you're seeing
> performance problems you should either defrag it from Windows (either
> natively or from inside VirtualBox) or back up the disk and restore it
> to a clean partition.
>
>   
Yeah. It's annoying that Linux can't defrag FAT natively (or most 
filesystems for that matter, the notable exception being ext4).

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