From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 27 5:50:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from titan.metropolitan.at (mail.metropolitan.at [195.212.98.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B73E14D22 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 05:50:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mladavac@metropolitan.at) Received: by TITAN with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Thu, 27 May 1999 14:53:21 +0200 Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179625@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> From: Ladavac Marino To: "'tw@ettnet.se'" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: RE: Defragging Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:48:16 +0200 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Widlundh [SMTP:tw@ettnet.se] > Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 2:21 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Defragging > > Hi, > Do you need to defrag FreeBSD, and how? [ML] In normal operation, no. At least, not in the FAT sense. The default *BSD filesystem (FFS) manages quite well to keep the files and free spaces contiguous. There are extreme cases (zillions of very small but growing files) when fragmentation may become an issue but this is more an application design issue (mistake, some would say) than a filesystem problem. In that case dump followed by newfs and restore may help. /Marino > Cheers > Thomas > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message