text_combined: administrator hjvpsdifferentperspectivescom 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 httpenopensuseorgsdbext2_fragmentation httpwwwitworldcomcomp3380nls_unixfrag040929indexhtml httpwww2lutfiilonenext3_fragmentationhtml provides slightly different view think conclusion may valid nearlyfull drives systems single concurrent user active process multiple active disk using processes effectively eliminate slowdown caused reasonable levels fragmentation seems specific circumstances may problem httpenopensuseorgsdbspeed_up_package_manager_stack wed 06 aug 2008 121558 0000 opensuse defragging possible necessary