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[Andrew <ald2 AT arrakis.es>]

Joel wrote:

> When I start my computer, it starts "init" or whatever, then checks 
> the disk. It says 0.5% contiguous. I looked it up, and I'm assuming 
> that this just means that the drive is 0.5% full. However, before 
> installing linux, I had many bad sectors. I'm wondering if perhaps it 
> means something else that I should be aware of. Thanks!

It means you're not using Windows, which would be very much more fragmented!

Andrew