I have held off making didactic comments on this topic but de-fragmenting a Unix or Linux file system just is not the way the filesystem was supposed to work. 5%-10% of the disk is set aside so that files are re-written in this buffer before writing to the disk, No program is ever going to able to guess whether two different files are supposed to near each other on the disk. When you do a fsck on a disk you discover how much fragmenting there is and it usually rather minimal. Now I expect to hear from the de-fragmenting people but such is life. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
