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Re: [Q] fsck at every boot?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hart)
Tue Nov 12 03:44:17 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 19:42:17 +1100 (EST)
From: Robert Hart <hartr@interweft.com.au>
Reply-To: Robert Hart <iweft@ipax.com.au>
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On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Borg wrote:
> Actually, IMHO the answer is yes. "fsck" not only checks
> FS for corrupted data but also defragments it. Even
> if you had a clean shutdown, used disk space is not
> always contiguous.
??? is this really the case? I always believed that the only way to
unfragment an ext2 partition was to take a backup, reformat and re-install
from the backup...
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