non-contiguous files on disk

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:49 AM, R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:33:14 -0800
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>> Is the drive nearly full?  Give us some more information, like the
>> output of df(1) and hdparm(8),
>> and anything unusual about the file sizes and growth.
>
>
> No it's not full.
> /dev/sde5            1922853680  62896064 1762282252   4%
>
> /dev/sde5:
>  multcount     =  0 (off)
>  readonly      =  0 (off)
>  readahead     = 256 (on)
>  geometry      = 243200/255/63, sectors = 3907014656, start = 4096
>
> File sizes are fairly large.  Theyre classical music flac files of fixed
> size. I add maybe 4 or 5 new files a week on average.
>

Okay.  I have similar drives, similar usage, and I've never seen this.
 I have no idea....

Good luck.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD