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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!olivea!charnel!rat!usc!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-coco!nwnexus!montana From: montana@halcyon.com (Robert J. Willard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386bsd - file fragmentation Message-ID: <1992Sep24.215705.808@nwnexus.WA.COM> Date: 24 Sep 92 21:57:05 GMT Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer) Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505 Lines: 31 I noticed that the words at bootup of 386bsd indicate a rising trend for file fragmentation, i.e., from .6% with just 386bsd to 1.5-1.7% with X386, TeX, and emacs installed. Is this a normal trend? Do disk defragmenters, such as PcTools and Norton Utilities, exist for unix? Does fsck do defragmentation? Is there a level of defragmentation that should be considered alarming? One other thing. I loaded emacs using the config.h etc. that was posted at agate.berkeley.edu. I modified the config.h to allow X windows and the oldXMenu. I had to mess with the xmakefile in the emacs/src a bit to get the thing to compile but it seemed to work and produced an emacs which works under X Windows. However, I haven't been able to figure out how to get any menus to appear (I assume there are popups due to the presence of oldXMenu). Does anybody know anything about this. It seems there are two levels of X functionality for emacs, one with menus and one without. I guess I got the one without? That was last night. This morning I turned on the computer and it went thru all kinds of gyrations and asked me to run fsck manually. So I did and then it booted as amnesiac. I rebooted again and all seemed well. What is this amnesiac? - Bob Willard C Also - after I was all done compiling and cleaning up, etc