On Thursday 29 January 2004 08:41 am, Wojciech Podgórni wrote: > Hello everyone on the list, > I have a question for you: is there any good (free) tool to defragment > files on FAT32 partitions in Linux? I am puzzled I can't find any with a > simple search.
I really doubt it. The only reason to use a FAT32 filesystem is to share files with a Windows installation and the Windows OS already comes with a defrag tool (albeit a pretty crappy one). If you really must defrag using Linux, you only need to copy all the files from FAT32 to a Linux filesystem, delete them from the FAT32 system and then copy them back. If FAT32 is only being used to share files, it should not really be all that large, so copying off and back shouldn't take much more time than running the defrag tool under Windows and might even be quicker. You could combine this with performing a backup as well, kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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