Why Doesn’t Linux Need Defragmenting?, from OSNews.

It’s a question that crops up with depressing regularity: Why don’t Linux filesystems need to be defragmented?. Here’s my attempt at answering once and for all.

Rather than simply stumble through lots of dry technical explanations, I’m opting to consider that an ASCII picture is worth a thousand words.

Although oneandoneis2 doesn’t mention either NTFS or ext3, but I think this article gives a simplistic overview of how filesystems writes files.

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