[techtalk] Disk utilities under Linux

[Mary Gardiner]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:05:58PM -0400, Andrew Wendt wrote:
> I don't think fsck really does anything to combat fragmentation does it?
> 
> I think it just checks for and repairs filesystem damage, like Scandisk does.

Yeah, I was under the impression that it's actually the ext2 filesystem
that either avoids fragmentation, or is designed in uch a way that
fragmentation doesn't translate to a speed loss, in the way it does for
windows.

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Judging from the man page fsck does only check for filesystem damage.

Mary.