Re: USB Mouse problems (Solved)
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 03:35:15AM -0400, lameth wrote:
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> The previous distrobution of linux that I used was Mandrake 8.0. The
> installs always went fine but then after a month or two of using it I
> would start seeing messages about non-contiguous data on the hard drive.
That's just `fsck' periodically run at boot time, to check the disk
for errors. It's quite normal for a disk to not have all its data
contiguous (imagine all data being contigous and you delete a file,
then most likely you get a hole somewhere and the data is no longer
contigous), but as long as the non-contiguous fraction is small your
system will run just fine. Fortunately both ext2 and reiserfs are
designed to handle fragmentation very well, in fact they have counter
measurements to `unfragment' all the time, so there hardly ever is a
need to run a defragment program like you'll have to do under Windows.
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groetjes, carel
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