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Originally Posted by jocampo
There is no fragmentation on Linux / Unix Os using mechanical hard drives.
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Uh, not true.
NTFS seems particularly bad for fragmentation, but all file systems will suffer from it unless they automatically defragment in the background. Many Linux filesystems keep fragmentation low by tricks such as spreading files across the disk so there is a lot of free space between them for the file to grow into, but they can still fragment badly when the disk is becoming full and files have to be split among the remaining free blocks.