From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 18:13:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E8237B405 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:13:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBE2DOg65954; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:13:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:13:24 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Defragmentation of disks -- is it possible or even necessary? Message-ID: <20011214021324.GB53376@dan.emsphone.com> References: <011801c18440$c7e2fdc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <011801c18440$c7e2fdc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 14), Anthony Atkielski said: > Do FreeBSD filesystems on disk ever have to be defragmented, and if > so, what tools are normally used for the purpose? They should not ever need defragmentation (by default, 8% of the filesystem is reserved to keep enough space to prevent frags from being created), but if you decide you need it, the standard way is dump, newfs, restore. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message