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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
> > 
> 
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