From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 17 16:21:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA09122 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 16:21:36 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA09117 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 16:21:30 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA06370; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 17:18:22 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511180018.RAA06370@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Disk De-Fragmenter...? To: brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com (Brandon Gillespie) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 17:18:22 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Brandon Gillespie" at Nov 17, 95 03:03:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 555 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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... I was just talking to someone who was trying to convinve me that I wanted to write one. So, what type of fragmentation are you seeing? 8-). 8-). (The joke here is that defragmentation is not really an applicable idea where UFS is concerned). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.