From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 2 13:23:53 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 BA1A216A488 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:23:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (www.unsane.co.uk [85.233.185.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A4F513C481 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:23:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from [10.0.0.173] ([10.0.0.173]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.0/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l22DNY3X003073 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:23:35 GMT (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <45E82550.80200@unsane.co.uk> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:23:28 +0000 From: Vince Hoffman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Kinsey References: <539c60b90703010849x33dd4bbbt8f6ca6aa0c8e83a0@mail.gmail.com> <45E7070E.9050506@daleco.biz> <45E70B8C.8010602@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <45E70B8C.8010602@daleco.biz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Steve Franks , 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: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:23:53 -0000 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. > If you dont mind reading in a terminal. gzcat /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/* | more does the trick fine for me. By the way thanks for the link to the doc. Vince > Kevin Kinsey