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Who knows whether it actually fixed anything

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  • 9
    it didn't "fix" anything, because "fixing" wasn't its job.

    "optimising" was its job. and that in fact it did do.
  • 7
    @tosensei > "optimising was its job. and that in fact it did do"

    These darn kids will never know the joy of de-fragmenting the drive and saving a minute of a 5 minute boot time (Windows 3.1/Win95).
  • 4
    well it WAS running faster after those long 5 hours of this hypnotizing-to-watch process. So I guess YES
  • 9
    @PaperTrail dude, you're missing the point. the joy - all of it - was in watching the defragger do its job and listen to the sounds that your drive would make while doing so.

    speeding up the boot time was actually a downside, because it meant your coffee wasn't ready when your pc was.
  • 0
    Super satisfying
  • 2
    I found a good replacement with SSDs:

    sudo fstrim -av

    Doesn't make things faster if there is also a weekly automatic trim anyway, as in many Linux distros, but it allows to keep the habit.
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