Re: Defraging a CD-RW
- From: "cranheim" <caranheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:37:42 GMT
I hear what you guys are saying, but I still don't understand why a rotating
CD does not act like a rotating C drive. If I have multiple folders on the
backup CD-RW, and I add more data files to one of the folders, won't that
folder need more track space and have to put this new data somewhere else?
The folder would be fragmented. Likewise, if I were to delete some files in
a folder from the CD-RW, wouldn't this create a "hole" that can be used by
some other data file? What am I missing? Charles Ranheim
"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1e6bea1a9f1b823898a137@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:53:16 GMT from cranheim
<caranheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
I use a CD-RW disk to store backup files. I update the files on this
backup
disk from time to time. Because of this, I suspect the data on the disk
is
probably fragmented.
They're not. There's no such thing as erasing one file, and therefore
there's no way for a gap to open up. It's those gaps from erased
files that create fragmentation on a hard drive.
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
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