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Re: [Q] fsck at every boot?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hal L. DeVore Jr.)
Tue Nov 12 10:01:50 1996
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Nov 1996 22:14:48 PST."
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Reply-To: hdevore@crow.bmc.com
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 08:59:24 -0600
From: "Hal L. DeVore Jr." <hdevore@crow.bmc.com>
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vladimip@iceonline.com said:
> Actually, IMHO the answer is yes. "fsck" not only checks FS for
> corrupted data but also defragments it.
Where did you get this idea? I don't believe it's correct. This mindset of
needing to _regularly_ defragment a filesystem is caused, IMNSHO, by DOS
which has a truly horrible file allocation strategy.
Hal DeVore (hdevore@bmc.com)
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