From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 16 12:59:20 2002 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 EC51037B4DB for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:59:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from truman.datasphereweb.com (12-231-81-122.client.attbi.com [12.231.81.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3198943EA9 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:59:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryallsd@datasphereweb.com) Received: (qmail 10850 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2002 20:01:14 -0000 Received: from 12-229-238-38.client.attbi.com (HELO bartxp) (12.229.238.38) by 12-231-81-122.client.attbi.com with SMTP; 16 Oct 2002 20:01:14 -0000 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: Subject: RE: File-systems Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:59:04 -0700 Message-ID: <001501c2754e$7dc6e1c0$0200a8c0@bartxp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 In-Reply-To: <20021016195531.GG290@rafter> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG=20 > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Socketd > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 12:56 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: File-systems >=20 >=20 > Hi again :-) >=20 > Just some filesystem questions. > What filesystem does FreeBSD use for disks (1.44mb and 120 mb). In=20 > windows they use ms-dos, but my guess is that we don't use FFS for=20 > disks? and how do I format a disk to our filesystem? Just a clarification, but windows 9x and below uses FAT(16/32). DOS sits on fat. FreeBSD I believe uses UFS for drive access and can be used via /stand/sysinstall. I don't recall what the acronym means. =20 >=20 > Why is it what we don't have to fragment our hard-disks all the time=20 > like I did in windows? I also heard that the filesystem for hard-disk=20 > will be updated in FreeBSD 5.0, can you guide my to some info about=20 > this? You are close, on windows you need to de-fragment the hard drive. Fragmentation slows down a system a little bit. Fragmentation usually occurs when you are doing lots of file creation/deletion. My 2 freebsd boxen don't do this on a normal basis, so the drives don't get too fragmented. >=20 > br > socketd >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message