On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 03:35:15AM -0400, lameth wrote: ... > The previous distrobution of linux that I used was Mandrake 8.0. The > installs always went fine but then after a month or two of using it I > would start seeing messages about non-contiguous data on the hard drive.
That's just `fsck' periodically run at boot time, to check the disk for errors. It's quite normal for a disk to not have all its data contiguous (imagine all data being contigous and you delete a file, then most likely you get a hole somewhere and the data is no longer contigous), but as long as the non-contiguous fraction is small your system will run just fine. Fortunately both ext2 and reiserfs are designed to handle fragmentation very well, in fact they have counter measurements to `unfragment' all the time, so there hardly ever is a need to run a defragment program like you'll have to do under Windows. ...snipped an *awfull* lot of no longer relevant thread history please try to weed out such parts -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
