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From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: /proc/sys/vm/(max|min)-readahead effect????
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In article <008b01c17dce$d96b08d0$0801a8c0@Stev.org> you wrote:
>> mkfs /dev/hdb1
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=some-file bs=x count=x
>> What can fragment this file????

> say you wanna write a 500MB file
...
> fit because there is another file on the disk

it is not, he just reformated the disk

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