What are non=contiguous blocks?

I notice when the system fsck's then it has a % of non-contiguous blocks after it has completed and I am wondering if this is signaling bad block possibility or a failing drive or just blocks that had to be rearranged? -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================