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

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

Muzer wrote:
> Yeah. It's annoying that Linux can't defrag FAT natively (or most
> filesystems for that matter, the notable exception being ext4).

I've been using linux fs on workstations and servers for many years and
never missed the 'defrag' feature. From what I recall from the old
windows times, defrag on windows takes about longer than a fresh restore
from backup on linux and the big advantage of the linux filesystems is,
that for most situations you won't have to defrag within a decade or so.
If it really was an important feature to have, someone would have worked
on that before. ;-)

YMMV, but I guess my life is better spent with other things than
defragmenting my disks.

Just my 2ct.

Johannes