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Cool, I noticed that it was not as defragged as W*
would have been with all the stuff I've been doing.
I am beginning to really like BSD...

Leon
>
> You don't need to run fsck manually, on a regular basis. It's there to fix
> things when problems appear or you didn't dismount the filesystems
normally.
>
> In that case, /etc/rc runs it anyway... in some rare cases you need to run
it
> from single user mode, but hey, you'll notice when you need to do that :>
>
>
> Cheers, J.