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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!wjin From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin) Subject: Re: 386bsd - file fragmentation Message-ID: <1992Sep25.030148.18124@menudo.uh.edu> Sender: usenet@menudo.uh.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: u0.cs.uh.edu Organization: University of Houston References: <1992Sep24.215705.808@nwnexus.WA.COM> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 03:01:48 GMT Lines: 32 In article <1992Sep24.215705.808@nwnexus.WA.COM> montana@halcyon.com (Robert J. Willard) writes: >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. All the above software consists of thousands of files. It is possible that you may have that fragmentation. >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? >From unix man page (from SUN-OS-4.1.1) of fsck : When the fragmentation exceeds 5% it is recommended that the file system be dumped to tape, newfs, and restored. Is this also true in 386bsd ? -- ____ ____ ____ _____________________________________ (___) _________________ | | | | | | W. Woody Jin (wjin@cs.uh.edu) (o o) Moo.... | | | |__| | PhD Student. Research Asst. o=======\ / I'm a Cow Lover. | | | | Dept. of Computer Science / | ||O My wife was born \ |---| |--| | University of Houston ` ||'---|| in Cow year. Mooo \____/|__| |__| ________________________________^^ ^^_____________________