From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 23:17:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.resfeber.se (Resfeber-gw.customer.internet5.net [195.66.48.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB2E937B417 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 23:17:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from resfeber.se ([212.75.72.9]) by mail2.resfeber.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA03574; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:17:08 +0100 Message-ID: <3C19A6D6.7CA67CE9@resfeber.se> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:14:30 +0100 From: Jon Molin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson Cc: Anthony Atkielski , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Defragmentation of disks -- is it possible or even necessary? References: <011801c18440$c7e2fdc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011214021324.GB53376@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Dan Nelson wrote: > > 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. Isn't it possible to use Dr Watson also? ;) /Jon > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message