hi everyone I'm doing some work in defragmentation of file systems. when i googled abt tht, i got tht ext3 does not suffer from fragmentaion as much as FAT or NTFS,but i could not get the reason for tht.. Can anyone help me out?? bye a linux lover -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/