Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 18:06:55 +0100 From: Santos <sansan@cas.port995.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Defragment HDD Message-ID: <3F2406AF.5080804@cas.port995.com> In-Reply-To: <20030727192744.A5069@welearn.com.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307241548210.73690-100000@lexus.isprime.com> <004501c3521d$e8532c40$3501a8c0@pro.sk> <44brvjhdl4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20030727192744.A5069@welearn.com.au>
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Sue Blake wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:30:47PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >>"Peter Rosa" <prosa@pro.sk> writes: >> >> >>>OK, but it is not the "real defragmenting" like Norton Speedisk >>>or MS Defrag on windoze machines. >>>Is there anything other ? >> >>The term doesn't typically refer to quite the same thing on Unix. No >>defragmentation program of that type is needed, due to different filesystem >>internals. See the old (but still useful) /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs >>for a bit of a better introduction. > > > > You'd be surprised how common this defrag request is... Read answer #8 on http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/05/1225249&mode=nested&tid=126&tid=185&tid=106&tid=163 I think the same aplies on filesystem fragmentation too.
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