On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> Every 20 times starting linux, the system check the harddrive partition,
> ; this is OK. I have the linux in two partition (hda5 and hda7) and the
> swap partition to.
> When the system check the partition hda5 shows 0.2% non contiguous, but
> hda7 shows 2.5% non contiguous blocks and this is every time increasing.
> Is there any way to reduce this fragmentation?
> I am runing Mandrake 7.2 with kde 2.01
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Francisco Alcaraz
> Murcia (Spain)
Fransisco,
I'm not an expert at this, but it's my understanding that some fragmentation
is normal with Linux. I always have a little (2-3%) fragmentation on my
drives. I don't think Linux cares much about fragmentation.
I could be wrong, though.
