On 12/17/2011 06:35 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
We Linux users usually make fun of Windows users for having to defragment their hard drives every now and then, while our ext2/3/4 solution is sooo far superior.
Actually, the fact that Linux drives don't need regular defragging has nothing to do with the file system. Unlike Windows, Linux doesn't cram the files in one after the other, leaving room between them for growth. See http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/items/defragment/index.php?lang= for a simple explanation.
BTW, if you want to make your flash drive completely unreadable by anybody using Windows (but not Mac) reformat it to ext4 because Windows can't read ext4 drives yet.
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