Fighting Fragmentation on Linux
So you have some files that are fragmented. And this obviously is slowing your machine down. Right?
Wrong.
This is the first thing you need to get your head around if you're out to keep your hard drive performance as high as possible. A file being fragmented is not necessarily a cause of slowing down.
For starters, consider a movie file. Say, three hundred megabytes of file to be read. If that file is split into three and spread all over your hard drive, will it slow anything down?
No. Because your computer doesn't read the entire file before it starts playing it. This can be easily demonstrated by putting a movie onto a USB flash drive, starting playback, and then yanking the drive out.
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