[olug] Defragmenting VFAT from linux

[Daniel Linder]

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<quote who="djalexander at cox.net">
> Is anyone aware of a tool that will defragment a VFAT formatted USB
> mass storage device in Linux?  Many of these devices, such as my Archos
> V480 PVR have VFAT filesystems that become very fragmented after a
> short time leading to performance degradation.

Well, if you can't find a defrag utility you can try the
backup/reformat/reinstall option -- that will definately clean up the
free/used table.

I guess the big question then is can you re-format/re-install it without
having a Windows machine available to run their software...

Dan

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