I've had some issues recently with my Mandrake 9.1 installation that caused it
to lock up a few times, and upon restarting a couple times I had it "check
the file system integrity." It goes through my home partition and then says
I have a percent or two of "non-contiguous blocks", but that it still
[PASSED]. Same deal, of course, from fsck.
My question is whether "passed" is as good as it can be, or if it just past
by whatever possibly slim margin. But mainly my question is, what precisely
are non-continous blocks, and how bad are they? Web searching seems to
indicate that they're just some fragmented files, which seems to fit the
name, but if that's the case why does the system seem so concerned with them,
and how come it normally seems to be at 0%? Aren't dos filesystems chock
full of "non-contiguous blocks" without anyone batting an eye, except to
defrag occasionally?
-James
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