On Monday, 28 March 2016 01:07:49 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 27/03/16 23:49, tabbypurr wrote:
On Sunday, 27 March 2016 22:57:37 UTC+1, Vir Campestris wrote:

The Windows guys chose to put all their files near the same end of the
disk to reduce seeks when the disk is nearly empty. Linux has a
different approach - they are scattered all over the place.

Longer seeks but less of them, due to less fragmentation. Total wait time is thus less.

I wonder how linux handles writing FAT32.


Perfectly well. Mangles the file names though

an avoidant answer there