Why does *nix not need to be defraged?

On Friday 16 January 2004 04:57 pm, der.hans said:
~ Am 16. Jan, 2004 schw=E4tzte Michael Havens so:
~
~ > Are you sure that there is no way to defrag? As my computer is loaadi=
ng
~ > programs the drive sounds like a typewriter.
~
~ Linux/*NIX filesystems generally don't need defrag. There are some tool=
s
 for ~ it anyway :).
~
~ defrag - ext2, minix and xiafs filesystem defragmenter
~
~ I have also heard there's something for reiser.
~
~ I've never tried one.
~
~ ciao,
~
~ der.hans

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