On 2020-10-28 16:24, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:43:22 -0700 > Bob Elzer via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> The biggest difference is, files can become fragmented while >> partitions don't. > I had no idea there was such a thing as a Linux swap file. I guess > that's a recent thing. You could use a file as swap space in the early 2000s. I remember doing that on a few machines then. > If my partition file becomes fragmented, is there a way for me > to defragment it? Probably not. However, file fragmentation is not generally a problem on modern machines because disks and CPUs are much faster than they were in 1998. If you use ext4 and have a disk that's less than 10 years old and less than 95% full, you will not notice anything. /swapfile on my laptop has 11 extents and it doesn't seem to have any problems. -- Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress There is no Darkness in Eternity But only Light too dim for us to see. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss