From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 10:17:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA15639 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 10:17:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA15633 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 10:17:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA00632; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 10:06:25 -0800 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 10:06:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jason Diesel cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Manager, how? In-Reply-To: <199602120912.KAA00240@othello.dataware.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Jason Diesel wrote: > I'm a very proud user, of no less than 7 FreeBSD systems, of which > I am very happy! I only have a couple of very basic questions: I'm getting there, I have 4 to my credit. > 1. The BootMgr, a really fantastic piece of software, that actually > alows me to have 4 operating systems on my machine.... Is it only > possible to install it at installation time? (I think you meant after install..) Yes, I believe if you go hunting on the cdrom under /tools you can find them. Look in /tools/dists, the full packages are there. > 2. How can I reduce the fragementation on my slices? One of my machines > is a www server, 24 hrs per day, and I need to maintain the disk, > how can I get the fragmentation down? fragmentation on the BSD Filesystem is somewhat odd, it's quite resistant to fragmentation. The only way to cure it that I know of is to back everything up, newfs it and restore. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major