file fragmentation

[The Grey Wolf]

<476 at bally.Bally.COM> by siva at bally.Bally.COM (Siva Chelliah/50000)
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# I have few questions :
#    1 ) Is there a way to find out the  fragmentation of a file system 
#        (like the Norton utility for DOS)?

What kind of filesystem -- Berkeley's Fast File System or System V's
Usel^H^H^HNIX filesystem?

If it's Berkeley, you can just run fsck -n on it.
If it's System V, you can just forget it.

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#    3) How to re-organize the file system ?

What happened to "2) "?
How do you mean "re-organize"?

If you mean "put it back so it is not so fragmented,", that means you
have to dump the filesystem (back it up somehow), clean the filesystem
(via mkfs(8) or newfs(8) (newfs is easier) and restore your data.

If you mean "move things around to be in a better place", that's an
environmental study project, from an electronic point of view (you need
to investigate what kind of impact it will have on your working environment).

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# Thanks.
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# Siva
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