Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:03:17 -0600 (CST) From: David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org> To: Tony <tony@tntpro.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard driving scanning/defragmenting Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011272156110.929-100000@sherman.spotnet.org> In-Reply-To: <3a21ad86.bf1b.0@www.tntpro.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Tony wrote: >thank you, that makes sense, any idea what the filesystem is called in unix? >(such as fat32 for windows) UFS is the filesystem used by FreeBSD. Some other flavors of Unix and friends differ (Linux uses ext2, for example, and I think SGI and SCO use other types). Peace -d - -- David Talkington Community Networking Initiative dtalk@prairienet.org 217-244-1962 > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> >> >>Tony - >> >>Unix filesystems are better organized, and don't seem to suffer from >>the fragmentation that FAT and FAT32 do, and so don't need this kind >>of maintenance. I don't fully understand the internals, however, and >>would love to hear from someone who does ... >> >>As for "scandisk", the Unix equivalent is fsck, and it's normally only >>necessary when the system was shut down improperly (as happens to me >>frequently, because I really shouldn't be running two space heaters >>and five computers on the same circuit =). In such a case, fsck will >>run on bootup before the filesystems are mounted. You shouldn't run >>fsck on a mounted filesystem. >> >>- -d >> >>- -- >>David Talkington >>Community Networking Initiative >>dtalk@prairienet.org >>217-244-1962 >> >>PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc >> >>Tony wrote: >> >>>I have noticed that when my freebsd computer boots it says "file system clean > >>>skipping scan" or something to that effect. with windoze computers I regulary > >>>scan disk and defrag, is that something I need to worry about with freebsd? > >>>is there some utility that I should be running that I'm not aware of? currently > >>>I have 2 freebsd machines a firewall and a webserver. >>> >>>thank you, >>>Tony >>> >>> >>>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >>> >> >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>Version: PGP 6.5.8 >>Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 >> >>iQEVAwUBOiGWDr1ZYOtSwT+tAQECiQf/QqxXTzoXTwj4f7jQwxFjn2sv506CsEuN >>ayGBHwo09rByiFOe0PaWfnq58WHW2CiqSFbrB/YGr3q6DW9fGHQuCvFe9K2kUXMh >>KnfJgd5eYyFDKqkZwAD1l72q4eq0d7kDB3IWnmkHnA+1JY8dLtMxtwbEHxOMaBDt >>OBz2nYz/bRf8YtIqsJG2vyIwNXTqKS4NYtJ/gAaFqmWJ4SeKmEdxa5CvLAEVb6nQ >>ckndkj4PSmlZ99ON6M6nEpyBPga/wSPRhA1NeDp6Ab/6Q7/dxaY7p7o7pyA5CzN4 >>g1HO2m7sQzF1poPb42181/PRYMfwUS591EHJ5CqZzIquwuTYgPynaQ== >>=kr4a >>-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQEVAwUBOiMuib1ZYOtSwT+tAQFHugf/elSnurdhtU+WdpPb3LCTebcnS4no14n/ maPimimldu3V0lN2pil8JTZW8dJMXfUVoMT2vOt+VogL3xPz3xEQqrhlM4GPjriY pTb1gbmYO9qBMfMzIUxByklpOT8XrHUFZ+EbXT2XzJYIrWJ4ACzn4XrpCf32Z8bU VelT73vRljWwe5UzJy5Vd0RQv73albwFlIlqRqSStCFYWC69n3ogwl0tJIckJXST DBJY3lai1YBB598fbLganj4bGnNQgaUxD4IKrSyxvM91eRkD74+KHfIZOFDN4Tev 8L3Gb3iTRHbuvXtd0G2NflHhtEOnJMmyXZexZjlcD20/+HrCnuNLEw== =ibhD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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