From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 20:50:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8622B16A403 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:50:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A3D13C441 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:50:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so972262nfc for ; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:50:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=kQu7R5gUuphn5AmYivsbPNjQ6mvBB/KbWOtTEyFg94RqU3RYG8cOaYVi7SING2TsgExva3R7jyGsA98O9bLL0bF6fGAj9Yk/dQmYH0cdJnnnLxOgq1Hf5PVyPlObmP4Hm1anXjmjZ/K9tXdpo3YGzKG/hls4QM9JqfuSYbEpFvM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=nYqwoMKIrk3msf8FZBk4qSe9DznMyuAPFVWXaCQXdJmTTATKgWBQ8rjyDsLJfIAvl1Sna/7OFC1GAozyRKqHLBef7lG3BDStmkx+kX4RO8jSnZB6kgzkjAX7yJ2tkcYqGmNBHjgXoMx8L1FDwM0fDhPez8zFTJlDi2reZZE6Uew= Received: by 10.82.116.15 with SMTP id o15mr815849buc.1172782244552; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:50:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.176.11 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:50:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <539c60b90703011250y7ad5b475v936b4d357549d50e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:50:44 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "Kevin Kinsey" In-Reply-To: <45E70B8C.8010602@daleco.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <539c60b90703010849x33dd4bbbt8f6ca6aa0c8e83a0@mail.gmail.com> <45E7070E.9050506@daleco.biz> <45E70B8C.8010602@daleco.biz> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 95cde9af93b07934 Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions Subject: Re: defrag X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:50:46 -0000 Excellent! Never had that one answered. I've gone down the typical road of being an MS booster ("It doesn't take 10 hours to set up and configure") to experiencing glee when I find yet another way FBSD kicks the crap out of MS. Why? Because I've grown up, and learned that 2 hours time spent *reading* and configuring is way better than 2 days time spent when the system crashes in the middle of the workweek - bottom line, BSD is cheaper before, during, and after installation. Probably by a factor of 10 for me over the last 10 years. As I write this, I'm on a MS laptop that has degraded to the point where any disk acess takes 10 seconds before the display updates (but not from the shell - so not a defrag issue, just a screwed registry or something). I used to reinstall my entire MS server every 6 months, on average... Steve On 3/1/07, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > Steve Franks wrote: > >> How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find > >> anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an > >> issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Steve > > > > I'm thinking this one's in the FAQ at freebsd.org. > > > > Bah! HEADS-UP: Ignore any advice I feel compelled to give today. Two > retractions in one hour would seem to demonstrate a cranial > short-circuit this morning. Steve, it's not in the FAQ. > > Here's a link to a brief mailist discussion: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2003-July/000932.html > > Assuming you have Ghostscript installed (which may be a big IF), you > might be able to take a gander at the document mentioned with something > like: > > groff /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/* ~/ffs.ps > ps2pdf ~/ffs.ps > acroread ~/ffs.pdf > > But there's probably a better way --- I'm certainly "one offing" today. > > Kevin Kinsey > -- > I don't care for the Sugar Smacks commercial. I don't like the idea of > a frog jumping on my Breakfast. > -- Lowell, Chicago Reader 10/15/82 > > -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089