NIX systems never required these fixated habits that later became “mandatory” (sorry, this is the truth of infiltration) If something cannot be owned, it gets destroyed.

One of the best ways to change a habit is to relearn a few core gesture practices.

Never create directory or file names with spaces ever. Not anywhere. Not anytime. Not in file managers or terminal/shell operations.

Always use an underscore (_) or a dash (-) for naming.

Step outside the box for a nanosecond and ask yourself why you crossed over to the *NIX side of safer computing in the first place. This goes deep—deep enough to silence the old geezer chatter.

Check this in the shell:

blkid -k

Look at how many filesystems are supported and recognized. Now compare that to the “other side“, which sticks to a single filesystem format (you all know that game). It eats space terribly and degrades physical devices over time. Unnecessary bloat. Unnecessary boot partitions.

LILO and early GRUB did not need this. GRUB2 is dynamic and designed to locate bootstrap data across multiple filesystem types.

Fill in the gaps. Change the habit. You will extend time-to-failure and reduce unnecessary overhead.

Again: do not use spaces in names – ever—going forward.

The *NIX world is far happier without them. It avoids wasted inode indexing, lost cycles, and fragile parsing caused by space-based naming conventions.

You have been warned.

“They types will argue any way they can.” Let them. Change is safer than argument.

And remember who once said: “Users will never need more than 640K of memory on a home computer”. Now look at the latest “11” that requires an I-can’t-afford-that amount of memory just to run.

And in the title should be something like “How to Repair and Defragment Linux ext4 Partitions“

Oh and you did not update the text to include the mounting of the filesystem.