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Re: repartitioning, NOT fips!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Watts)
Mon Oct 26 16:15:55 1998

From: "Tom Watts" <tom@twatts.demon.co.uk>
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 20:50:13 -0000
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The ext2 file system doesn't suffer fragmentation to the same degree as the
FAT file system, but it does get fragmented (all be it 0.2% or whatever!).

Tom.
tom@twatts.demon.co.uk

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Daigle <Tim_Daigle@cw.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: 26 October 1998 20:32
Subject: Re: repartitioning, NOT fips!


>"Since it's a brand new installation, defragmenting (hopefully) won't
>be needed, but is there a convenient utility to check?"
>
>This sorta sparked my curiosity, does Linux and other Unix systems suffer
>from the same sort of disk fragmentation issues that M$ and Macs suffer
>from? And are there defrag utilities for Linux?
>
>
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