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Date:      Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:14:30 +0100
From:      Jon Molin <Jon.Molin@resfeber.se>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Defragmentation of disks -- is it possible or even necessary?
Message-ID:  <3C19A6D6.7CA67CE9@resfeber.se>
References:  <011801c18440$c7e2fdc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011214021324.GB53376@dan.emsphone.com>

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Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> 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.

Isn't it possible to use Dr Watson also? ;)

/Jon


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