From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 20:16:34 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 70C1937B401 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:16:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from barryg.mi.celestial.com (dagney.celestial.com [192.136.111.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B655C43F93 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:16:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@celestial.com) Received: by barryg.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id 4001C639A8; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:16:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:16:30 -0700 From: Bill Campbell To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20030724201629.A21183@barryg.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org References: <001a01c3521c$348ca3e0$3501a8c0@pro.sk> <200307241538.06338.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200307241538.06338.dkelly@HiWAAY.net>; from dkelly@HiWAAY.net on Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:38:06PM -0500 Subject: Re: Defragment HDD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 03:16:34 -0000 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:38:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: >On Thursday 24 July 2003 02:45 pm, Peter Rosa wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> is it possible, and by using what program, to defragment >> HDDs under FreeBSD ? > >Why are you worried about it? Professional-grade filesystems such as UFS >do not require or benefit the way Microsoft-grade filesystems do. This >is a common problem in that people can not imagine that the Microsoft >way is any but the only way. Maybe this is a marketing opportunity! Write a do-nothing program that keeps the HD light flashing, displays something like the typical M$ defrag utility, and perhaps even simulates a random system crash and reboot. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Government is the great fiction, through which everbody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat