To put it another way, that non-contiguous percentage is totally unrelated to whether your drive is failing or not. It's just telling you the degree of file system fragmentation.
Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all..... > You know how every so often while booting debian, fsck will run? > well, last week I noticed that after it ran, it said .3% non contiguous. > Today it ran and it said .6% non contiguous. > My question is.. why diesn't fsck fix the non contiguous errors it finds? > > about a month ago my hard drive failed. before it failed it was dojng this > same thing. when debian wouldn't boot any longer, I ran fsck manually and > it didn't seem to work.. Not fsck's fault, the hard drive is completely bad. > Could this be a sign of another hard drive failure? (it's a different drive, I > tossed the old one) or should I just run fsck as root and fix the non > contiguous errors? > > thanks! > > xucaen
