Jayclark Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 What type of file system does Linux use? Like Windows fat16/fat32/ntfs. And I read that linux does not need to be defraged. How does it pull that off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 (edited) linux uses several filesystems like ext2/ext3/reiserFS but not the window-ones although it can read and write on windows partitions (write only on vfat partitions). linux can be defragmented, but i never heard of anyone who needed to do it. most of the fragmentation is usually on the swap drive and not on the main, root drive. and fragmentation doesn't slow down a linux-comp. Edited September 10, 2004 by arctic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted September 10, 2004 Share Posted September 10, 2004 There's a description of file systems here, and a discussion of fragmentation here. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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