On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Sangohn Christian wrote:
>Every time my Debian-Linux makes an automatic file system check on all
>partitions after a certain amount of boot ups, the part of "non-contiguous"
>files higher than the last time.
>Is that a problem (I couldn't find the word contiguous in my English-German
>dictionary)?
Contiguous means sequential, with all segments being end-to-end. A contiguous
file, therefore, has all of its blocks in increasing order with no gaps. You
should only ever expect near 0% file discontiguity in partitions which hardly
ever change.
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