From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 7:10:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boat.mail.pipex.net (our.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28ABD37B479 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:10:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 17400 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2000 14:10:41 -0000 Received: from mailhost.puck.pipex.net (HELO mailhost.uk.internal) (194.130.147.54) by our.mail.pipex.net with SMTP; 17 Oct 2000 14:10:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 792 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2000 14:10:28 -0000 Received: from camgate2.cam.uk.internal (172.31.6.21) by mailhost.uk.internal with SMTP; 17 Oct 2000 14:10:28 -0000 Received: by camgate2.cam.uk.internal with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <48RBLPJ4>; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:09:29 +0100 Message-ID: From: Daniel Bye To: 'Odhiambo Washington' , FBSD-Q Subject: RE: Defragmentation Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:04:14 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As far as I know, there are no defragmentation agents for FreeBSD (or most other *NICES). Therefore, you would have to rebuild your file systems. Take a tape backup of the entire system (this is sequential, so disk fragmentation is not an issue), rebuild your disk slice/partition setup, and then restore the backed up file systems from the tape. However, you shouldn't need to do this as often as under MS systems, as the various UNIX file systems aggressively try to minimise data fragmentation. If anyone knows of a defragmentation agent, I'd like to know :o) Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Odhiambo Washington [mailto:wash@iconnect.co.ke] > Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 3:04 PM > To: FBSD-Q > Subject: Defragmentation > > > Hi users, > Pls forgive my ignorance. > What is the procedure for manually defragmenting disks in FBSD? > I'm asking this because everyday I observer those msgs when > the systems > boots and I see some %age fragmentation just going up and up > - but I am > not able to capture that mesg - which obviuosly cannot be > viewed by dmesg. > > Much thanks. -Wash > > -- > Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., > wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza > Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., > Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KENYA. > > Moderation is good, but boring. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message