How to maintain vfat fs-partion

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 16:52 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> How do I go about doing maintaince on my fat32 harddrive partions? On 
> Windows I know defrag and scandisk are used. And I'm under the 
> impression that such maintaince is done automatically by etx3. So how do 
> I do this with vfat?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
fsck can be run on an unmounted vfat partition which takes care of the
scandisk functions.
I do not know of a way to defrag a vfat partition under Linux.