From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 21 2:29:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5794515358 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 02:29:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA01544; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 02:52:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 02:52:56 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Walter Brameld Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: defrag Message-ID: <20000121025256.Q14030@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <38883389.8EC9B9A3@twave.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <38883389.8EC9B9A3@twave.net>; from brameld@twave.net on Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 05:23:05AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Walter Brameld [000121 02:46] wrote: > Is there a way to defrag a hard drive under FreeBSD? Yes, backup and restore, however... There's very little reason why you would need to, FFS defrags itself as it goes, it has a nifty trick where it will relocate small chunks at the end of files to larger open spaces where they can grow, if it detects them as growing. There are some degenerate cases for FFS, I would search the hackers or 'fs' FreeBSD mailing lists for examples. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message