Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:16:37 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Mervin McDougall <mcd_advisory@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fragmentation Message-ID: <41F5AC05.1040500@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050125020305.70545.qmail@web30908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20050125020305.70545.qmail@web30908.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Mervin McDougall wrote: > I wanted to know whether it is unusal or is a > problem if when my system starts it indicates that > there is some fragmentation of the files but the file > system is clean and thus it is skipping the fsck. Is > this a bad thing? Is this unusual? No. It's normal. [ Well, excessive fragmentation is a bad thing, but the BSD FFS defragments itself unless the drive is 90+% full, normally you don't need to worry. ] -- -Chuck
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