From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 20:50:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA02605 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:50:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA02600 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:50:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA05615; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:50:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:50:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Dante Cutrupi cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Defragmenting disks In-Reply-To: <199709170953.MAA05450@ns1.sminter.com.ar> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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