Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:12:50 +0000 From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cleaning Message-ID: <3F96AC82.3090408@liwing.de> In-Reply-To: <3F96A869.2060003@daleco.biz> References: <20031022154447.33556.qmail@web40710.mail.yahoo.com> <3F96A869.2060003@daleco.biz>
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Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Rogue Spider wrote: > >> is there a freebsd equivalent to scandisk and >> diskdefrag so that i can clean the drive it says on >> start up that the dir are fragmented but after that i >> am unsertain. > > If there is "fragmentation", it is cleaned up > in the boot process (for 4.x) or done in > the background after booting (on 5.x). Did it changed? My last information is, *bsd checks the disks at boot if they were not cleanly unmounted. Otherwise there will nothing happens in this direction. > Note that "fragmentation" on a ufs volume > is different from what you're used to > on DOS/FAT filesystems. Yes, fragments are parts of a block of a filesystem, where several small files or tails of files are stored together to avoid waste of space by using an entire block for a small piece of data. > As long as the box is running, you have no > worries. If there's ever a significant problem, you'll > be told to boot single-user and fix it yourself > using 'fsck'. Or you didn't notice. Usually next boot will show you. If a hardware failure occur, you may never notice except you check your entire disk(s) and prove all sectors on the disk. Jenshelp
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