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Old 05-30-2009
will a new file be contiguous on my drive?
Say I am creating a new file on UNIX, how can I find out if it is contiguous on disk?

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Old 06-02-2009
Good question! On Linux's ext2/ext3 filesystem suite, there's a program called "filefrag" which will tell you the number of "extents" a file uses. It usually requires root access to run.
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