text_combined: jerry houston wdiheeffjayarenet joe sloan wrote really ntfs rather fragmentation resistent fat decendants lacks considerably thats said yet see ntfsusing friends weekly defrag one believe work two xppro workstations desk support parts office im belief ntfs partition doesnt need defragged often however month along routine tasks like security updates name preventative maintenance month machine shows significant evidence fragmentation red bars graphical display defragmentation everything blue contiguous green cant processed cant swear fragmentation actually measurable effect performance much dont wait become problem know significant fragmentation occurs within time way thread caused research installable file systems came across ifs driver allows windows machines read write ext2 ext3 partitions interests one linux machines dual boots xppro thought might also interest others httpwwwfsdriverorg wed 06 aug 2008 063526 0800 opensuse defragging possible necessary