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From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 06:03:04PM -0800, Mervin McDougall wrote:
> hi
>   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?

I guess you mean it prints something like the following:

/dev/ad4s1a: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/ad4s1a: clean, 118393 free (633 frags, 14720 blocks, 0.4% fragmentation)


That is perfectly normal, and nothing to worry about.



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Erik Trulsson
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