Defraging a ps3's hard drive

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Maybe a backup, format, restore would work (if it -- defrag -- is even needed and I doubt that it is).

Anyway, I use to have a really good link on this that explained why it's more of an issue for Windows and not that much of a problem for linux/UNIX. I can't seem to find it now though.

Here's another explanation that I just found on why Linux (and UNIX) computers don't normally have to deal with this.

http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/ind..._defragmenting

If you look up defragmentation on wiki, it touches on it as well.

Is the PS3 based on linux or do they just support it being installed and use some custom/proprietary solution. If it's not based on linux, the above may not be applicable but without an option to defrag, I'd think they must be handling it in some manner or they're using something that doesn't need it.