My understanding is that the functionality is built into the filesystem (and the filesystem drivers, naturally), so any distro that uses filesystems that support that functionality by default will support that, as long as your partitions are formatted to that filesystem. Most distros use ext3 or ext4 by default, which has defrag built-in. They wont magically make an external FAT32 formatted drive you happen to plug in become defragged though, for example.
On 20 December 2013 16:14, p.lane <p.l...@lectrics.co.uk> wrote: > Knowledgable peeps. > Is it necessary to defrag Linux based partitions? > I was taught that defragging UNIX partitions wasn't ever necessary because > UNIX 'conspired to defragment'. > ie from the outset of creating data, semi-smart data handling routines > logically distributed file fragments about the partition for optimal > function and retrieval. > Does anyone know if various Linux distro's have similar functionality? > thanks. > > -- > P.Lane > Poole > Dorset > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-01-07 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue > -- Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell Professional Geek Blog: http://darkliquid.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkliquid Fiction: http://www.protagonize.com/author/darkliquid -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-01-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
