I remember an east side meeting I went to (or maybe it was you tube) and this is what I remember.... Windows stores data sequentially like so: 11112222333344445555 and if you were to delete 2 and 5 then you were to save more data it would be 11116666333344446666 linux scatters the data around your disk like so: 1111000022220000333300004444000055550000 then you delete 2 and five and then write more data it would look like: 11110000000000003333000044440000000000006666 is my understanding of this correct? :-)~MIKE~(-: