From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 14 22:47:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0ED37B41B for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 22:47:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16F8bP-0002UO-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 06:47:19 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.net, from userid 500) id 39A4A1138; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 07:47:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 07:47:17 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Defragmentation of disks -- is it possible or even necessary? Message-ID: <20011215064717.GB7022@raggedclown.net> References: <011801c18440$c7e2fdc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011214021324.GB53376@dan.emsphone.com> <3C19A6D6.7CA67CE9@resfeber.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C19A6D6.7CA67CE9@resfeber.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i 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 On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 08:14:30AM +0100, Jon Molin wrote: > 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 > Jon ! You almost got a "serious" reply to that unil I noticed your smiley. Good old Dr Watson, I never used to be able to work out what, practically speaking, you were supposed to do with Dr Watson's assistance..lol. Patient: "I feel sick" Docter: "You feel sick becuse you are ill. Next patient please". -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message