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.

"dennis@home" <dennis@killspam.kicks-ass.net> wrote in message
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> "bamboozle" <bamb@oozle.com> wrote in message
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>> hello, you are believing in a myth postulated by microsoft when they made
>> NT, but was fast to backpedal it very fast because the whole world was
>> laughing...
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>> NTFS needs defrag... you can do some serious reasearch although the web
>> is contaminated by misinformation still floating around from back then...
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> You are just spreading FUD.
> Name one occasion where NTFS has had to be defragged.
> 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.
> FAT has problems allocating space if you let it fragment too much and does
> need defragging, but it is a very old file system.
> You can run NTFS systems for years without defragging just like you can
> run Linux systems.
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