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From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>
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Subject: Re: Disk De-Fragmenter...?
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As a rule, you never have to worry about it, as the fragmentation effects 
are minimized with the Berkeley FFS.

In short, don't worry about it, I never see over 3-4% fragmentation as a 
general rule.

On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, Brandon Gillespie wrote:

> Does Unix (or specifically FreeBSD) have a disk defragmenter?  I know 
> fsck figures disk fragmentation, but the man pages do not say it does 
> anything about it...
> 
> -Brandon Gillespie-
>