Disk Fragmentation, what to do?

Earl H. Kinmonth ked at garnet.berkeley.edu
Thu Feb 2 13:26:58 AEST 1989

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In article <367 at lilink.UUCP> mikej at lilink.UUCP (Michael R. Johnston) writes:
>The best way of handling this problem (and the cheapest) is to just
>tar-off the entire contents of the directories that are most fragmented.
>Then remove all the files and restore the tape. 

Would it not be more effective to run fsck -s before doing the restore?

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