"Joe Smith" wrote:
> I know Linux uses the ext2 filesystem which is supposed to be
> anti-fragmenting.
It fragments when it has to (as opposed to `always' like
windows).
> during boot up, I see my hard drive is 9.7 % non - contiguous. I'm not sure
> what this means.
I assume that 9.7% of the file space is fragmented.
> What then is the difference between non-contiguous and fragmentation?
Don't know.
> How can my hard drive be 9.7 % non-contiguous if
> the ext2 filesystem is supposed to be anti-fragmenting?
It's not _anti_ -fragmenting. If your disk is getting full, it
may start to get fragmented.
Someone have the URL to the good/bad secretaries analogy?
> Is there a way to make my hard drive contiguous again? I thought that there
> were no linux defragmenters.
See the defrag package in section admin (I've never used it).
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