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What were the major filesystem technology improvements that made this redundant?
I think NTFS and SSD disks.
My computer's definitely gonna be faster after this.
I do laugh in that in all the times I ever did this for real (even back to my massive 170MB drive), it never felt much faster.
When I was younger, my friends and I joked about making a "Disk Fragmenter" which would enumerate through every file on the disk and split them into non-contiguous clusters to make sure that the actuator arm on your platter-drive gets a PROPER WORKOUT TO FEEL THE BURN.
Such tools really exist and they're used for testing file systems, so that you have a more realistic "aged" layout on a freshly created test file systems. We also have memory fragmenters to do the same for memory for the same reasons.
Admittedly I haven’t made much of a search, but various search engines and autocorrects seem really convinced that I mean “defragmenter” instead of “fragmenter,” despite myself…
Typically it would be getting some bits from other parts of the drive and there would be a few (that many) bits it wouldn't move because they were the swap file and DOS boot system files.
I’m going to watch Johnny Castaway now.
Will need to degauss after this
What, you don't need the data any more? Or are you conflating screen degaussing?
I did it in computer lab and showed others and the teacher lost it, thought we were breaking things.
My computer's definitely gonna be faster after this.
I do laugh in that in all the times I ever did this for real (even back to my massive 170MB drive), it never felt much faster.