Re: What's the best free disk defragger, not in Windows, for NTFS and FAT drives/partitions?

David Brown wrote:

Defragging in the hope of speeding up a machine is like the people who pay most of the price of a good PC to upgrade their 3.4 GHz processor to 3.6 GHz.

No, I occasionally defrag just because it is good housekeeping and I like playing program manager. I like to wind up overly serious self important twats on Usenet too. Rod Speed is always good for a chuckle or two.
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