Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:43:22 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@verizon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: defrag Message-ID: <g94s7g$9r$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <20080827172946.5a1d4103@gom.home>
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prad wrote: > something that has puzzled me for years (but i've never got around to > asking) is how does *nix get away without regular defrag as with > windoze. > > fsck is equivalent to scandisk, right? > > so when you delete files and start getting 'holes', how does *nix deal > with it? > The short answer is that defrag is built into and an integral part of the filesystem. So you can think of it as "always running" as opposed to the "regularly scheduled" by some other entity/application external to the filesystem. No third party "Disk Keeper" like utilities required. -Mike
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