tlug: disk fragmentation

[<mike.fabian@example.com>]

今日は皆さん、

how is disk fragmentation   handled  in UNIX systems?   On   Microsoft
Windows there are all sorts of defragmentation tools, many of them are
very annoying. When I was last irritated by such a tool I wondered why
one doesn't have to  mess around with  something  like that on  a UNIX
system. It seems that it is somehow not  needed for UNIX. When I check
a Linux file system I see something like:

/dev/hdb3: 2091/265200 files (5.7% non-contiguous), 649553/1060290 blocks

the non-contiguous percentage  is never very  high and never  seems to
rise    significantly.  Does  that   mean that    UNIX  systems do the
defragmentation automatically?

Mike

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