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sanhuesoft

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Registered: 2013-11-30

Posts: 37

Question about "non-contiguous-files" on an external drive

I checked my external usb drive with the " sudo fsck.ext4 -vpf" command, which returned this:

35798 inodes used (0.01%, out of 244187136)
4115 non-contiguous files (11.5%)
23 non-contiguous directories (0.1%)
# of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0
Extent depth histogram: 34808/981
211965223 blocks used (21.70%, out of 976744448)
0 bad blocks
38 large files

For your knowledge, it is a 4TB external USB drive with around 800 GB used. Is it normal to have so many non-contiguous files on a partition created about a month ago? What do you think?

Thanks!

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