[olug] Defragmenting VFAT from linux

[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.  I only run Linux and 
OSX, so I wonder how they expect those users to maintain the drive.  I 
have heard of a tool simply called "defrag" in Gentoo and Debian, but I 
can't seem to find that tool in a Fedora/Redhat package, or in any of 
the most common apt (for rpm) repositories (dag, freshrpms, etc.).


Anyone else have experience with this?

Thanks,

-Darren


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Darren Alexander
Unix System Administrator
Meridian, Inc.
4805 G. St.
Omaha, NE 68117
(402) 501-7510