"occam" <occam@razor.dot.com> wrote in message
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> dennis@home wrote:
>
>> Its like *all* disk based file systems.. you can make it faster by
>> optimisation.. commonly referred to as defrag by those that don't
>> understand.
>
> I know this is a vista nG. But if you go into your (NTFS) XP
>
> Start>> All Programs >> Accessories >> System Tools >> Disk Defragmenter
>
> and click the 'Analyse' button, you will get many indices of disk
> fragmentation, as provided by the built-in MS defragmenter.
>
> I guess they do not understand the difference between 'fragmentation' and
> 'optimisation'. Silly them!

Well obviously not as fragmentation was a byproduct of the Berkeley
filesystem where the odd bits left over at the end of a file, the fragments,
could be put into a shared block. ;-)