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From: Jim Pazarena <fquest@ccstores.com>
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during the boot sequence, I routinely see a "% fragmentation message".

It was my understanding that fragmentation doesn't occur on a Unix
(er FreeBSD) box..

It seems that there is a concept of fragmentation from the above
message, so, is there an "un-fragment" utility?

Jim