text_combined: aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom joe sloan wrote jerry houston wrote years defragging hard drives part routine system maintenance windows systems occurred ive linux systems running long enough might good idea defragment drives make sure everything running smoothly possible havent able find information drive defragmentation linux file systems searching defrag software installer turned results called something else linux land defragmentation possible linux file systems needed occasionally windows systems lot windoze converts ask antivirus software really issue vein defrag isnt something linux users ever worry either reason intelligent storage policies think unix file systems office competent secretary keeps things filed properly working otoh pc file systems like office files tossed randomly use every weekend people hired come organize files said possibility fragmentation unix file systems even tools reorganize things antivirus companies offering linux antivirus programs general neither ever needed practice really want boot maintenance mode runlevel tar filesystem onto tapeor spare partition recreate empty filesystem restore tar file back partition standard practice 4243 bsd days much files fragmented freespace fragmented could lead new files becoming fragmented said completely unnecessary linux tue 05 aug 2008 084011 0500 opensuse defragging possible necessary