fragmentation and linux

[Lisa Kachold]

Hi Michael,

This question illustrates how our access to "information" has changed since
the 1990's where all linux/nix tech was best discussed in newsgroups and
mailing lists, and today where extensive immediate sources are available
from the RIGHT SOURCE.

I understand that Michael is usually interested in fostering discussion on
the list, and through that finds he learns and retains information better,
but I usually experience my inner voice yelling:  "USE THE SOURCE Luke"

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxFilesystemsExplained



On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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~(-:
>>
>
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