Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcdc!mckee From: mckee@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bret McKee) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: BSD filesystem defragmentation question Message-ID: <5980057@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Date: 10 Aug 89 23:04:12 GMT References: <1886@marvin.Solbourne.COM> Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co. Lines: 18 >Assume I have an 8k/1k filesystem and create a file with 789 >bytes in it. This gives me one fragment. > >Now, let's say I add to the file so it grows to be 3875 bytes, >taking 4 fragments, and that these fragments are not all in >the same block. This is an impossible setup. You would have one file taking up a 4k "fragment". At most, a file will occupy one incomplete block. --- Bret Mckee Hewlett Packard HP-UX Development Lab Phone:(303)229-6116 email: mckee@hpfcls or mckee%hpfcde@hplabs.hp.com Of course, these are just my opinions...