Jayclark 0 Report post 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? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arctic 0 Report post 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spinynorman 0 Report post Posted September 10, 2004 There's a description of file systems here, and a discussion of fragmentation here. :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
