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On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 15:54 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Hi group,
> A while back I needed help with an ext2 file system that required
> checking every boot before mounting. The drive suffered from errors
> involving 'non-contiguous files'

I'm not sure what your problem was but this wasn't it.  "Non-contiguous
files" simply means there is some fragmentation in your filesystem,
which is totally natural.  It's not an error, or even a warning for that
matter. It's informational.  High fragmentation is an indication that
your filesystem may not be performing optimally, but it's not an error.

> .The solution was to run (this is
> where things get hazy) e2fsck <option> <option> on the offender. I
> keep thinking it's '-i -o', but there's no such options. Maybe it
> wasn't e2fsck at all. I can't remember. I don't think it was
> '-f''(force).

I'm not sure why your system needed to be checked for each boot.
Perhaps you can post the exact error message?  I'm pretty sure it wasn't
fragmentation.  What it *might* be saying (but again we can't verify
without an error message) is that your filesystem contains errors that
cannot be fixed in non-interactive mode (i.e. you need to run fsck
manually).

It's hard to tell you what option you need when we are unsure what
problem you are trying to fix.