F16 unusable while writing to pendrive

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Dec 18 04:59:38 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 22:01 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:49:48 -0800
> Joe Zeff wrote:
> 
> > Actually, the fact that Linux drives don't need regular defragging has 
> > nothing to do with the file system.
> 
> Actually the fact that linux drives don't get defragged is more
> because there are no defragging tools than because there wouldn't
> be a performance benefit to having the sectors in fragmented files
> moved to adjacent chunks of disk.

man e2freefrag
man e4defrag

poc



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