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25 Jul
2004
25 Jul
'04
11:42
On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 12:01 pm, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
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?
AIUI this is approximately equivalent to file fragmentation, but there is nowhere near the same effect on performance with *nix filesystems as there is with FAT based systems. In the vast majority of cases they are absolutely nothing to concern yourself with. HTH Dylan -- "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" -Dark Helmet