From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 18:25:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6846516A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 18:25:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B90E43D31 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 18:25:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rpratt1950@earthlink.net) Received: from user89.net1586.fl.sprint-hsd.net ([69.69.238.89] helo=kt.weeble.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BY7kY-0006HW-00; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:24:34 -0700 Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:25:52 -0400 From: Randy Pratt To: Robert Storey Message-Id: <20040609142552.52087a65.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20040609070543.470a7e75.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> References: <1086674510.1106.4.camel@solid.solisixoffice.com> <200406081436.i58Eaa704784@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20040609070543.470a7e75.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 18:25:08 -0000 On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:05:43 +0800 Robert Storey wrote: > > > I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my > > system boots i see all kinda fragmentation information. How do I > > correct this? Any good reading material? > > FreeBSD will defragment itself without any action from the user. > However, defragmentation requires some blank space, and (ideally) you > should not let any partition get more than 80% full. You can check on > that with "df -h": I've been running partitions well over 90% for over six years on FreeBSD and have not seen any problems with doing so. Do you have a FreeBSD documentation reference for that 80% figure? Thanks, Randy > bob@sonic:~> df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s2a 248M 68M 160M 30% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/ad0s2g 2.4G 281M 1.9G 13% /home > /dev/ad0s2e 248M 1.2M 227M 1% /tmp > /dev/ad0s2f 8.7G 2.4G 5.6G 30% /usr > /dev/ad0s2d 248M 17M 211M 8% /var > > The column labeled "Capacity" tells you the percentage of space being > consumed - over 80% would be bad. Note that the "devfs" uses 100% (on > FBSD 5.x, it doesn't exist on 4.x) - that's no problem, it's not a > partition and it will always be 100%. > > regards, > Robert > > --