[MLUG] fsck ext3

[Stefan Monnier]

> Is it desirable to fsck a disk occasionally? I usually see something like
> /dev/sdc1: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
> /dev/sdc1: 41807/61063168 files (6.8% non-contiguous),
> 85260186/122096000 blocks

> which I take to mean the filesystem was modified to be more contiguous
> (aka fragmented?).

"contiguous" is somewhat opposite to "fragmented", but in any case, no,
AFAIK ext2/ext3's fsck does not do any defragmentation, so if it only
output the above, it means it checked the filesystem and found
no inconsistency.


        Stefan