From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 14:29:00 2003 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 1F64837B401 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 14:29:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from munk.nu (213-152-51-194.dsl.eclipse.net.uk [213.152.51.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4115C43FE1 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 14:28:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from munk@munk.nu) Received: from munk by munk.nu with local (Exim 4.20) id 19gA7V-0000Wg-4e for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:28:57 +0100 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:28:57 +0100 From: Jez Hancock To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20030725212857.GC1715@users.munk.nu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions References: <004501c3521d$e8532c40$3501a8c0@pro.sk> <20030724201242.GC32490@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030724201242.GC32490@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: User Munk Subject: Re: Defragment HDD 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: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 21:29:00 -0000 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:12:42PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > I think he was joking :) The FFS filesystem reserves 8% of the disk > space so that it can allocate contiguous blocks for files. In general, > you don't have to worry about file fragmentation. There are no tools > for optimizing the layout of a disk (putting files in a directory next > to each other on disk, for example) like SpeedDisk does, though. Is this why occasionally a df call shows that a filesystem is over 100% full out of curiousity? tuning -- Jez http://www.munk.nu/