aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom jerry houston wrote years defragging hard drives part routine system maintenance windows systems thats microsofts filesystems suckhhhhare poorly designed written occurred ive linux systems running long enough might good idea defragment drives make sure everything running smoothly possible files fragmented become fragmented 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 yes filesystems automatically whenever file changes size needed occasionally windows systems since done continously filebyfile basis needed never handful files partition fragmentedand filesystem drivers defrag files soon convenient say long youll ever notice happening thanks advance tue 05 aug 2008 091116 0500 opensuse defragging possible necessary