I remember years and years ago (could either been in a kanotix or sidux forum, I ca not remember) seeing about parametres that you can add to a partitions that gives instructions as to when fdisk cleans partitions at bootup. It involved time frame (days, months up to a max), number of reboots (up to a max I believe) and I think the degree of defragmentation. His recommendations (generally agreed to by most) far exceeded the defaults placed.
Would anyone know the commands and what a good setup would be for most users?
I can not seem to find the file where I wrote them down in, but I do know that some of my partitions (thanks to Linux drives can last a long long time) get only cleaned once or twice a year with those commands and the fragmentation is only around 7% or so. Nothing compared to what Windows can do to a drive in a week.