From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 21: 1:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D31337B400 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:01:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 16h1eR-0006aQ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2002 05:01:43 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 5AEB313040 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 06:01:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 096FE22598; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 06:01:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 06:01:43 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: defragment UFS Message-ID: <20020302050142.GB1634@raggedclown.net> References: <002301c1c1a6$b9e06f70$0801a8c0@ethel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002301c1c1a6$b9e06f70$0801a8c0@ethel> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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, 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 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message