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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!wjin From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin) Subject: Re: 386bsd - file fragmentation (a correction) Message-ID: <1992Sep25.035328.22567@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> <1992Sep25.030148.18124@menudo.uh.edu> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 03:53:28 GMT Lines: 36 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 ? > > > -- ____ ____ ____ _____________________________________ (___) _________________ | | | | | | 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 \____/|__| |__| ________________________________^^ ^^_____________________