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From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin)
Subject: Re: 386bsd - file fragmentation (a correction)
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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 03:53:28 GMT
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In article <1992Sep25.030148.18124@menudo.uh.edu> wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin) writes:
>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 :
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oops ! should have been Ultrix 4.2
>
> 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 ?
>
>
>
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