could you give me a refrence to ssome documentation about this if my understanding is correct :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > 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~(-: >