From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 06:37:53 2003 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 8949037B401 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 06:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A911B43F93 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 06:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h77DbpOg028002; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 09:37:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h77DbpBA028001; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 09:37:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200308071337.h77DbpBA028001@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: jigerjava@hotmail.com (Jiger Java) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 09:37:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: from "Jiger Java" at Aug 07, 2003 10:39:30 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck -F 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: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:37:53 -0000 > > Hi, > A Related question is how to I defrag my freebsd installation if it says > that /dev/adas1 etc is 4.6% fragmented etc? The word is used to mean something different in UNIX that in MS. It is a different concept. Basically don't worry about it. It does not mean your disk is working poorly. If you are interested, study up in the handbook, man pages and other publications on the process of building a BSD UNIX file system and what blocks and fragments mean. ////jerry > > -Jiger >