From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 22:32:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816D137B4C5 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:32:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e9V6W7I54912; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:32:08 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200010310632.e9V6W7I54912@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Michael Johnson Cc: Chris Byrnes , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: defrag In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:32:07 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 01:56:36 -0500 (EST) Michael Johnson wrote: +------------------ | UFS doesnt get fraged like fatXX or NTFS. It does get some fraged , but I | have never seen above about 5% +------------------ Block fragments in the UFS file system are not the same as fragmented files under FAT and the like. The "frag" abbreviation is just an unfortunate coincidence. One description of what a fragment is can be found in section 2.4 of "Fsck - The UNIX- File System Check Program". This doc can be found in /usr/share/doc/smm/03.fsck on most FreeBSD systems. chris -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message