Not quite,what you are talking about is fsck - file system check,
this is analagous to scandisk on the windows platform, it has
abolutely nothing to do with fragmentation. It is run if the system
has crashed or is shut down incorrectly and is also run as
preventative measure every X number of boots
On 12 Jun 2000, at 20:31, Fran Parker wrote:
> Far as I know, it does it on its own at a determined number of boots.
> You probably have seen it at one point or another during boot ...
> sometimes it takes longer to boot... You will see it looking at each
> partition and verifying everything and doing some maintenance on some
> files.
>
> Linux takes care of its own :)
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