Linux Gains Tool For Defragmenting exFAT Filesystems (www.phoronix.com)

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A new release of exfatprogs is now available as the user-space programs on Linux for the exFAT file-system to complement the in-tree kernel driver for the Microsoft exFAT support.

New to the exfatprogs 1.3 release is introducing defrag.exfat as a tool for defragmenting an exFAT file-system or assessing its fragmentation status. Thus now defragging exFAT under Linux rather than no defrag support at all or having to do so under Microsoft Windows.

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[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Defrag is a thing I haven't thought about for like 10 years now. Is this really needed in the age of fast random-access SSDs and such?

[-] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Note that you need to use disk space to describe where all the slices of a file are. There are some limitations to how many pieces your files can be in. Not sure on exFATs limit, but on NTFS I know it's a soft cap around 1.5 million parts.

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