From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 20 05:03:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA14784 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 05:03:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cody.usls.edu (cody.usls.edu [202.47.133.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA14761 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 05:03:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from francis@cody.usls.edu) Received: from localhost (francis@localhost) by cody.usls.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA00184 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 21:02:55 +0800 (PHT) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 21:02:54 +0800 (PHT) From: Francis Vidal To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: disk fragmentation Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG if the system reports a certain number of percentage in disk fragmentation (i.e. 5.6% fragmented), what is the impact to the performance of the entire system if the level of fragmentation becomes high or what is the watermark for a tolerable fragmentation. how do you lower disk fragmentation? is there a program to do such thing? thanks! --- francis vidal | usls.NET | university of st. la salle, bacolod city, PH PGP key available at ftp://ftp.usls.edu/pub/pgpkeys/francis.pgp "birds of the same feathers are birds!" - rhoderick samonte's class To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message