From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 8:10:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8D3937B479 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 08:10:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.22.163.2] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13lYMf-0009oZ-00; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:09:18 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13lYOo-000Nnl-00; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:11:30 +0300 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:11:30 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Daniel Bye Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Defragmentation Message-ID: <20001017181130.G89971@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , Daniel Bye , FBSD-Q References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "Daniel Bye" on Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:21:56PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE X-URL: web.iconnect.co.ke/users/wash X-Accept-Language: en X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa X-Uptime: 6:05PM up 8 days, 20:53, 1 user, load averages: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Daniel Bye [20001017 17:29]: =>Agreed. I have never seen anything above 3%, on a disk that has been =>hammered for months. I would only start to worry if disk usage were above, =>say, 80% AND I saw high fragmentation (above 5-6%). The work involved in =>taking a copy of the FS and rebuuilding disk setups (or manually copying and =>deleting files :o\ ) is too much to contemplate! alouette# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s2a 74383 31717 36716 46% / /dev/ad0s2e 1686783 1378659 173182 89% /usr /dev/ad0s2f 34687 22929 8984 72% /var /dev/ad0s1 2048000 1738560 309440 85% /win procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc => =>I didn't know about tunefs, though, so thanks for that gem! Have I missed this one about tunefs? Well no. But I am wondering if enabling/disabling of soft updates can be a factor to the % increase. I have it enabled! -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KENYA. Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. -Elizabeth Bowen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message