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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
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Subject: Re: Disk Fragmentation, what to do?
Keywords: disk fragmentation
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Date: 2 Feb 89 03:26:58 GMT
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In article <367@lilink.UUCP> mikej@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?