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vunderbayesterday at 11:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

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.


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andikleen2today at 12:15 AM

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.

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leoooodiastoday at 12:03 AM

LOL