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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
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>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.

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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...