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Quote: HTG Explains: Why Linux Doesn’t Need Defragmenting
Good link - but we're talking about the FAT 32 partition here
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Surely this is not a question of Linux vs FAT 32, but rather flash drive vs traditional hard drive (the kind that spins).
The purpose of defragging is to move file clusters close to each other, so as to minimise movement of the read/write head. But flash drive don't have a read/write, and there is no benefit in making the files contiguous. It's just as fast to read two clusters that are "far apart" and ones that a contiguous.
At least, that's my understanding. I'm not a hardware expert.
Mike