<quote who="Dave Mitchell"> > Linux *does* have fragmentation, just not generally enough to be a > problem. There are many other mechanisms going on (like dividing the disk > into cylinder groups) that operate to keep fragmentation manageable. > > (Again with the proviso that I'm most familiar with UFS). It still seems to me that over a year of standard desktop usage, you would come up with a good amount of fragmentation. I know this is not true for a server though. I had a Redhat 8 machine that ran for over a year without a reboot. When I did reboot it, it had about 5% fragmentation. That's not bad for over a years worth of usage.
