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Sue Blake wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:30:47PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
>>"Peter Rosa" <prosa@pro.sk> writes:
>>
>>
>>>OK, but it is not the "real defragmenting" like Norton Speedisk
>>>or MS Defrag on windoze machines.
>>>Is there anything other ?
>>
>>The term doesn't typically refer to quite the same thing on Unix.  No
>>defragmentation program of that type is needed, due to different filesystem
>>internals.  See the old (but still useful) /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs
>>for a bit of a better introduction.
> 
> 
> 
> You'd be surprised how common this defrag request is... 

Read answer #8 on 
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/05/1225249&mode=nested&tid=126&tid=185&tid=106&tid=163 
I think the same aplies on filesystem fragmentation too.