From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 29 13:58:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 EC65216A452 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:58:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daniel@stiw.org) Received: from smtp.conceptual.net.au (grimiore.conceptual.net.au [203.190.192.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F56E43D45 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:58:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daniel@stiw.org) Received: from spock.enterprise.prvt (202-137-107-088.adsl.usertools.net [202.137.107.88]) by smtp.conceptual.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C404313947 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:58:16 +0800 (WST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200507281157.42688.bob89@eng.ufl.edu> <200507290913490593.03B78D69@sentry.24cl.com> Message-ID: From: "Daniel Marsh" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:58:15 +0800 In-Reply-To: <200507290913490593.03B78D69@sentry.24cl.com> User-Agent: Opera M2/8.0 (Win32, build 7561) Subject: Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11 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, 29 Jul 2005 13:58:20 -0000 On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:13:49 +0800, MikeM wrote: > On 7/28/2005 at 11:57 AM Bob Johnson wrote: > > |Microsoft used to claim that NTFS doesn't need defragmentation. > |Compared to MSDOSFS, that's a reasonably accurate statement, but > |if you push it hard enough, it will still become fragmented. > ============= > > The process of installing Windows on a clean disk leaves the disk in > need of defragmenting. As he said, "if you push it hard enough, it will still become fragmented"