"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> You CAN run an NTFS system for years without defrag. However,
> it will be fragmented. Just yesterday I worked on a system that was
> 4+ years old and had never been defragmented. The fragmentation
> level was severe. You cannot get around the physics of a hard drive.

I know, however you don't need to defrag it, it doesn't stop working like
FAT did.
All the linux file systems would have been fragmented after 4 years of real
use too.