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Date:      Sat, 2 Mar 2002 06:01:43 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: defragment UFS
Message-ID:  <20020302050142.GB1634@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <002301c1c1a6$b9e06f70$0801a8c0@ethel>
References:  <002301c1c1a6$b9e06f70$0801a8c0@ethel>

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On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:57:16PM -0800, David Smithson wrote:
> Hi all.  Is there a defragment utility for FreeBSD?  Is it even necessary?  If not, why not?
> 
No.
No.
No matter what size file you have on FreeBSD it will never have more
than one partially filled block, when a file grows it fills the spaces 
up rather than allocating new blocks uneccesarily a la DOS.

-- 
Regards
   Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>

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