From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 26 15: 0:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20EB037B479 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 15:00:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from 1Cust126.tnt14.krk1.da.uu.net (1Cust126.tnt14.krk1.da.uu.net [63.26.25.126]) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA07198; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 15:00:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:00:21 -0600 (CST) From: David Talkington X-Sender: dtalk@sherman.spotnet.org To: Tony Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard driving scanning/defragmenting In-Reply-To: <3a21910d.bd9d.0@www.tntpro.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Tony - Unix filesystems are better organized, and don't seem to suffer from the fragmentation that FAT and FAT32 do, and so don't need this kind of maintenance. I don't fully understand the internals, however, and would love to hear from someone who does ... As for "scandisk", the Unix equivalent is fsck, and it's normally only necessary when the system was shut down improperly (as happens to me frequently, because I really shouldn't be running two space heaters and five computers on the same circuit =). In such a case, fsck will run on bootup before the filesystems are mounted. You shouldn't run fsck on a mounted filesystem. - -d - -- David Talkington Community Networking Initiative dtalk@prairienet.org 217-244-1962 PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc Tony wrote: >I have noticed that when my freebsd computer boots it says "file system clean >skipping scan" or something to that effect. with windoze computers I regulary >scan disk and defrag, is that something I need to worry about with freebsd? >is there some utility that I should be running that I'm not aware of? currently >I have 2 freebsd machines a firewall and a webserver. > >thank you, >Tony > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQEVAwUBOiGWDr1ZYOtSwT+tAQECiQf/QqxXTzoXTwj4f7jQwxFjn2sv506CsEuN ayGBHwo09rByiFOe0PaWfnq58WHW2CiqSFbrB/YGr3q6DW9fGHQuCvFe9K2kUXMh KnfJgd5eYyFDKqkZwAD1l72q4eq0d7kDB3IWnmkHnA+1JY8dLtMxtwbEHxOMaBDt OBz2nYz/bRf8YtIqsJG2vyIwNXTqKS4NYtJ/gAaFqmWJ4SeKmEdxa5CvLAEVb6nQ ckndkj4PSmlZ99ON6M6nEpyBPga/wSPRhA1NeDp6Ab/6Q7/dxaY7p7o7pyA5CzN4 g1HO2m7sQzF1poPb42181/PRYMfwUS591EHJ5CqZzIquwuTYgPynaQ== =kr4a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message