<div dir="ltr">I have been taught that a Linux file system doesn't fragment. HOwever I'm was looking at Linux from scratch (section 6.25.2) and have discovered that isn't true. A couple of the programs the e2fsprogs installs are:<br>

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                          Reports free space fragmentation information
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                          <a id="e4defrag" name="e4defrag"></a><span class=""><span class=""><strong>e4defrag</strong></span></span>
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                          Online defragmenter for ext4 filesystems
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                          <a id="filefrag" name="filefrag"></a><span class=""><span class=""><strong></strong></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div><div>Well..... maybe I learned it doesn't need to be defragmented. However, e4defrag seems to indicate it does need to be defragged. Could I get some comments?<br>

<br> :-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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