From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 10 18:23:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA06423 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:23:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kryten.nina.com (dyn051-gnv.51.fdt.net [205.229.51.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA06393 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:23:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from frankd@localhost) by Kryten.nina.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id VAA01587; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:21:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:21:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Seltzer X-Sender: frankd@Kryten.nina.com To: Sean Batson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: defrags In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Sean Batson wrote: > How is fragmentation dealt with under FreeBSD? > Is there a utility for defragmenting the Hard Drive? > > The following is summary of my start up showing my disk: > > /dev/rwd0a: clean 8604 free (108 frags, 2124 blocks, 0.7% fragmentation) > /dev/rwd0s2f: clean 21384 free (148 frags, 5309 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation) > /dev/rwd0s2e: clean 12934 free (70 frags, 3216 blocks, 0.5% fragmentation) > > How do i defrag the above partitions? > > Sean Batson. > Not being a file system guru (Terry, feel free to jump in any time) I can't give you a very in-depth explanation but I can say that FreeBSD has a more intelligent file system than MSDOS and doesn't have the fragmentation problems DOS has. Why would you even want to defrag file systems with a fraction of 1 percent fragmentation anyway? Frank -- Only in America can a homeless veteran sleep in a cardboard box while a draft dodger sleeps in the White House.