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.

  • balsoft@lemmy.ml
    9·
    7 months 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
      2·
      7 months 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.

    • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 months ago

      I’m hoping this will help with the annoying “something’s wrong with your drive” every time I mount an exFat drive in windows. This is in spite of properly unmounting it on the Linux side.