<<I wasn't saying that. But writing to the files *during installation* might result in fragmentation.>> Just my two cents, if you install to a freshly formatted partition and the install has to write 20,000 files during package installation I cannot see the fs code scattering the files all of creation. For example, when the mozilla package is installed I cannot see the mozilla binary being written to random sectors of the disc, I see the binary being written sequentially from start to finish. Would this be a correct assumption? John -- Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org
