Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:34:12 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Defragment HDD Message-ID: <20030725213412.GF20823@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030725212857.GC1715@users.munk.nu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307241548210.73690-100000@lexus.isprime.com> <004501c3521d$e8532c40$3501a8c0@pro.sk> <20030724201242.GC32490@dan.emsphone.com> <20030725212857.GC1715@users.munk.nu>
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In the last episode (Jul 25), Jez Hancock said: > 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? Yep. When that happens, users cannot write anything until root removes enough files to lower the freespace back below 100%. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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