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From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>
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Subject: Re: Disk De-Fragmenter...?
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> Does Unix (or specifically FreeBSD) have a disk defragmenter?  I know 
> fsck figures disk fragmentation, but the man pages do not say it does 
> anything about it...

It doesn't need to do anything about it.  By design, the BSD FFS
minimizes fragmentation, so you don't need to defrag the disk.


Nate