From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 17 18:21:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA13379 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 18:21:03 -0800 Received: from chemserv.umd.edu (chemserv.umd.edu [129.2.64.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA13368 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 18:20:58 -0800 Received: from cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (cappuccino.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.14]) by chemserv.umd.edu (8.7.1/8.7) with ESMTP id VAA21758; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 21:20:36 -0500 (EST) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (8.7.1/8.6.4) id VAA13916; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 21:20:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 21:20:35 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu To: Terry Lambert cc: Brandon Gillespie , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk De-Fragmenter...? In-Reply-To: <199511180018.RAA06370@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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, I have a friend who got relocated to work in Utah, for a company that had as a major product a VMS disk defragmenter. My friend was brought in to help in doing one for Unix. I know this to be true, I don't know if it was FFS, but there must be SOME kinda truth behind this. I just can't remember the company name ... Oh, I know, Raxco. > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: