From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 21 2:38:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 292BC14F2C for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 02:38:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.49] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id sa099650 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 05:36:43 -0500 Message-ID: <3888378F.67F49359@twave.net> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 05:40:15 -0500 From: Walter Brameld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: defrag References: <38883389.8EC9B9A3@twave.net> <20000121025256.Q14030@fw.wintelcom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * 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 Thank you for the reply. I don't seem to be having a problem, was just curious. -- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al (ntl-kch-l) n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message