"Tom Lake" <toml_12953@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "dennis@home" <dennis@killspam.kicks-ass.net> wrote in message
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>> "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>> I know, however you don't need to defrag it, it doesn't stop working like
>> FAT did.
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> FAT doesn't stop working if not defragged. Where did you get that idea?

It does eventually as it decides it can't find enough free space to write a
file even though it has numerous free segments.
I believe later versions of FAT were better but the problem was never
removed in its entirety as far as I know.
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> Tom Lake