Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:52:51 -0700 From: Graeme Tait <U@webcom.com> To: Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@hot-shot.com> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Peter Kok <peter@sweda.com.hk> Subject: Re: fragmentation Message-ID: <360A9503.5930@webcom.com> References: <199809241407.KAA02432@laker.net>
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Steve Friedrich wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:47:41 +0800, Peter Kok wrote: > > >what is the meaning of > >frags? > > > >and how do you do defragmentation? > > See my recent email regarding books also, but here's a short answer... > > You're probably aware that DOS and Winblows use "clusters" of sectors, > due to poor design choices by IBM/Microsoft/Intel in the initial design > of the PC. Information is stored in disk sectors which are frequently <snip> I thought that apart from the issue of a large "minimum allocation unit" in MS-DOS, there was the problem of individual files getting spread over non-contiguous (and often widely separated) regions of disk. How does BSD manage this? -- Graeme Tait - Echidna Be kind to Windows - don't boot an operating system when it's (mostly) down. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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