From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 26 08:20:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08616 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 08:11:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08182 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 08:06:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA18567; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 10:04:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 10:04:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@localhost To: manning@bear.cs.zorg.edu cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Defragmentation program/port In-Reply-To: <199804252341.XAA00215@manning.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 25 Apr 1998 manning@bear.cs.zorg.edu wrote: > Is there a program or a port that you can use to defragment your hard- > drive? Like defrag for dos? That's because defragging is a very major win under dos, and a fairly minor one for a unix running an ffs filesystem. There are some commercial implementations I've heard of, but I've never heard that they made very much of a performance difference ... probably relying on folks not understanding the underlying differences in the dos and ffs filesystems. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message