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From: Chris Saunderson
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 00:00

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Ian Field <field@elec.uq.edu.au> writes:

> 
> Is there a utility which I can run which will defragment my harddisk
> like defrag in dos and lose95?

You shouldn't need to do this AT ALL under any flavour of Unix.  However,
in the event that fsck reports >5% fragmentation, simply unmount the
drive and fsck it.  This should fix the "problem".

Cheers

Saundo

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