Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:55:21 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: rogue_spider@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cleaning Message-ID: <3F96A869.2060003@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20031022154447.33556.qmail@web40710.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031022154447.33556.qmail@web40710.mail.yahoo.com>
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Rogue Spider wrote: >is there a freebsd equivalent to scandisk and >diskdefrag so that i can clean the drive it says on >start up that the dir are fragmented but after that i >am unsertain. > > If there is "fragmentation", it is cleaned up in the boot process (for 4.x) or done in the background after booting (on 5.x). Note that "fragmentation" on a ufs volume is different from what you're used to on DOS/FAT filesystems. As long as the box is running, you have no worries. If there's ever a significant problem, you'll be told to boot single-user and fix it yourself using 'fsck'. HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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