And fragmentation can be bad; files can be split into tens, hundreds or even thousands of files. Not only can be performance come to a near-standstill, but system hangs and crashes can result as well.

Fragmentation comes about when a system cannot or will not allocate enough contiguous disk space to store an entire file in a single location on a disk. Instead, the file ends up being broken into ...

Diskeeper plans to introduce a file system filter driver later this year that will eliminate most file fragmentation before it actually occurs, company executives said Friday.

The question is, if a file ISN'T fragmented and it's not a file that was 'touched' (at least by me in any way), how the hell can it get fragmented???

In the Linux environment, the file system acts as a backbone, orchestrating the systematic storage and retrieval of data. It is a hierarchical structure that outlines how data is organized, stored, ...