From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 17:39:10 2004 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 DA4E316A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:39:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from out010.verizon.net (out010pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898FC43D48 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:39:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.161.120.219]) by out010.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040324013909.QMRM1910.out010.verizon.net@mac.com>; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:39:09 -0600 Message-ID: <4060E6B9.6060406@mac.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:39:05 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kyryll A Mirnenko References: <200403232220.45233.mirya@ukrpost.net> In-Reply-To: <200403232220.45233.mirya@ukrpost.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out010.verizon.net from [68.161.120.219] at Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:39:09 -0600 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to optimize UFS/FFS blocks structure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 01:39:11 -0000 Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote: > Where're utils to optimize UFS/FFS storage (a.k.a. "defragmentation")? Such utils aren't needed; the Berkeley FFS avoids excessive fragmentation. However, if you insist on doing something, perform a backup, newfs, and restore using tar or dump. -- -Chuck