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Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:40:51 -0800
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"Sohrt, Jeff" wrote:
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> What are the benefits of Defraging?

One of the benefits is that it will prevent POSIX programs from dying on fork()
errors due to insufficient contiguous disk free space.

Somebody recently ran into this when they were trying to install some bixby.org
stuff onto a very, very fragmented MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET.
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