Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:13:24 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Defragmentation of disks -- is it possible or even necessary? Message-ID: <20011214021324.GB53376@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <011801c18440$c7e2fdc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <011801c18440$c7e2fdc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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In the last episode (Dec 14), Anthony Atkielski said: > Do FreeBSD filesystems on disk ever have to be defragmented, and if > so, what tools are normally used for the purpose? They should not ever need defragmentation (by default, 8% of the filesystem is reserved to keep enough space to prevent frags from being created), but if you decide you need it, the standard way is dump, newfs, restore. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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