2009/7/18 AlunFoto <[email protected]>: > Hmm... > When you delete files on FAT formatted media, I thought what happened > is that you overwrite the information stored in the FAT about which > disk blocks are in use. Hence if there are no files (and no > directories), no disk blocks are marked as used and you would have > nothing to defrag. > > I may be wrong... :-)
Spent half an hour reading some online resources. What I've found so far in favour of Bob's view is that reformatting is a quick way to get rid of orphaned clusters. Didn't think of that... :-) However in the case of camera memory cards, always receiving files much larger than the partition's cluster size, I'd imagine that the only situation where you'd get orphaned clusters is when the camera battery dies during file writing. Or by using a SDHC card in a reader/camera that only supports SD. But then again, I've already been wrong once. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
