On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 00:00, James Nickerson wrote: > I've had some issues recently with my Mandrake 9.1 installation that caused it > to lock up a few times, and upon restarting a couple times I had it "check > the file system integrity." It goes through my home partition and then says > I have a percent or two of "non-contiguous blocks", but that it still > [PASSED]. Same deal, of course, from fsck.
Non-contiguous block percentage is basically how fragmented your drive is. ext2/3 and most inode systems are quite resistant to fragmentation. I've operated a partition for a year or more and never exceeded 5%. I've seen windows drives (fat32) that were 35% or more fragmented. > My question is whether "passed" is as good as it can be, or if it just past > by whatever possibly slim margin. But mainly my question is, what precisely > are non-continous blocks, and how bad are they? Web searching seems to > indicate that they're just some fragmented files, which seems to fit the > name, but if that's the case why does the system seem so concerned with them, > and how come it normally seems to be at 0%? Aren't dos filesystems chock > full of "non-contiguous blocks" without anyone batting an eye, except to > defrag occasionally? Passed simply means your data is okay and the drive is consistant. The non-contigous stuff is how fragmented your drive is. By the way, I think there is a defragmenter for linux but I've never known what it was called or had to use it. Michael > > -James > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
