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  • One thing I immediately noticed, you typed unmount which is incorrect, should be umount. Also fragmented files are not an issue/error, it simply means that if you're using a magnetic rotating hard disk, the system have to make a few extra disk seeks to the hard disk to piece together your files, this is handled automatically by the system, and it's quite normal to have them. Commented Apr 10, 2017 at 2:11
  • @LieRyan - Yes, honest mistake. I know what fragmentation is, and I'd like to once in a while do a defrag (which I know most *nix people say is not needed). I'd like to defrag my NAS - How can I add & execute one of the defrag tools in the *nix space? (few linked above) Commented Apr 10, 2017 at 4:20
  • The old-school method - before defragmentation software in any OS - was simply to move the files to another location, format the original partition/volume, and then move them back. You might even skip the formatting portion. Commented Oct 17, 2019 at 12:04