Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:50:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dante Cutrupi <dante@ns1.sminter.com.ar> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Defragmenting disks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970917204743.5533F-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199709170953.MAA05450@ns1.sminter.com.ar>
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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Dante Cutrupi wrote: > > Could anybody please tell me how to defragment a disk? Fsck reports 14% > of fragmentation. > We are using FBSD 2.1.7.1 You don't (very easily), and it's not a major concern. It's informational only; fragmentation does not have the bad effects as it does in FAT filesystems. Frags will get bad if the disk gets near-full frequently and the FS code has to scramble to put files on the disk. If you *really* want to fix it, do a backup, newfs the filesystem, then restore. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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