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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Mervin McDougall wrote:
>   I wanted to know whether it is unusal or is a
> problem if when my system starts it indicates that
> there is some fragmentation of the files but the file
> system is clean and thus it is skipping the fsck. Is
> this a bad thing? Is this unusual?

No.  It's normal.

[ Well, excessive fragmentation is a bad thing, but the BSD FFS defragments 
itself unless the drive is 90+% full, normally you don't need to worry. ]

-- 
-Chuck