Thanks, Harondel
Of course, you are correct.
I realized my mistake after I sent the post.
Bambi
"Harondel J. SIbble" wrote:
> 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 :)
>
> Harondel J. Sibble
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