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Date:      Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:48:56 +0400
From:      Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com>
To:        demigor <demigor@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11
Message-ID:  <b7052e1e050727114850748cc8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <bb17cb3e0507270802aac307f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <bb17cb3e0507270444b875133@mail.gmail.com> <20050727134713.Y76649@gwdu60.gwdg.de> <bb17cb3e0507270802aac307f@mail.gmail.com>

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On 7/27/05, demigor <demigor@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > How one could defragment a partition on FreeBSD ? Which tools are
> > available
> > > for this ?
> >
> > Why should you want to do this? There's no harmful fragmentation in
> > the UFS of FreeBSD unless you exceed the max capacity of 100% which is =
92%
> > when looking closer but reported as 100% by df.
> >
>=20
> Thanks for the information. Asked just of curiosity :)

Anyway, you can just back up files on that partition, recreate the
partition, restore the files (sequentially) - voila, they'll be
defragmented.

--=20
Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia
I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements

"We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"



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