defragmentation

Meanings

• Noun

  The process of reorganizing data on a storage medium to improve access and efficiency.

  - "After years of use, the hard drive needed defragmentation to restore its performance."
  - "The defragmentation process can take several hours to complete."

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Variants

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defragment , defragmentation , defragmentations , defragmented , defragmenting , defragments

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Etymology

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The term 'defragmentation' comes from the process of reorganizing fragmented data into contiguous blocks.

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Trivia

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1. Defragmentation was first introduced with MS-DOS version 2.0 in 1983.

2. The first defragmentation tool was called 'DEFRAG.COM' and was developed by IBM in 1984.

3. Modern operating systems, such as Windows, automatically defragment the hard drive on a regular basis.

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Related Concepts

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1. Fragmentation: The condition where data becomes scattered across a storage medium due to file deletions, additions, or modifications.

2. Disk Defragmenter: A utility program used to perform defragmentation on a computer's hard drive.

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Culture

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Defragmentation is a common computer maintenance task and has no significant cultural or historical significance.

How to Memorize "defragmentation"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a hard drive as a series of boxes. Each box represents a file. When data is added, deleted, or modified, the boxes get shuffled around. Defragmentation is the process of putting the boxes back in their correct order.
   - Visualize the process of defragmentation as a puzzle, where the goal is to fit all the pieces back together in their proper place.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the term 'defragmentation' with the idea of organizing and optimizing.
   - Think of defragmentation as a way to give a computer's hard drive a tune-up.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the acronym D.E.F.R.A.G. to remember the steps in the defragmentation process: Disassemble, Evaluate, Fit, Reassemble, and Analyze

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