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From: jcburt@ipsun.larc.nasa.gov (John Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: file fragmentation
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Date: 1 Mar 91 13:33:05 GMT
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In article <3592@d75.UUCP> woan@peyote.cactus.org writes:
>In article <476@bally.Bally.COM> siva@bally.Bally.COM (Siva Chelliah/50000) writes:
>>I have few questions :
>>   1 ) Is there a way to find out the  fragmentation of a file system 
>>       (like the Norton utility for DOS)?
>
>I don't think so... Outside of some old UNIX/386 implementations, I
>don't really remember being able to do this with any UNIX file system
>(UFS perhaps? Certainly not BSD).
>
>>   3) How to re-organize the file system ?
>
>What exactly do you mean by reorganize?
>
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I recall reading an announcement (in BYTE ???) about a version of
NORTON utilities for the UNIX environment...there were some differences
relative to the DOS version, so I'm not sure if the UNIX version has anything
for disk/file fragmentation...

John Burton
(jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov)