Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 13:14:50 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd@mazenalzogbi.com (Mazen S. Alzogbi) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk defragmentation Message-ID: <200401071814.i07IEpa13790@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1691D8C9A2220149A8AF30209B5D0EB467F551@sc3.shuaacapital.co.ae> from "Mazen S. Alzogbi" at Jan 07, 2004 09:30:31 PM
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> > Yeah, I just landed from MS Planet to FreeBSD and I am NOT leaving :) > You mean you just escaped from MS alter-world that is striving to disolve the real world. Congradulations! ////jerry > Thanks for the explanation. > > Cheers, > > Mazen > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 9:27 PM > To: Mazen S. Alzogbi > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Disk defragmentation > > > > > > Hi, > > > > How can I defragment my HDD partitions in FreeBSD? > > You don't need to. The FreeBSD file systems don't have a problem > with fragmentation. If you run fsck and see the word fragments, it > means something other than in the MS world. > > But, if you insist on doing it, your best bet would be to use > dump(8) to make a complete backup of the filesystem. Then > re-newfs(8) it and then restore(8) the backup in to it. > > ////jerry > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Mazen > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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