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Re: [Q] fsck at every boot?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Tue Nov 12 13:38:14 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:35:18 -0800
From: Borg <vladimip@iceonline.com>
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Hal L. DeVore Jr. wrote:
>
> 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.
Yes, that's why I thought that way. I was wrong.
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