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> rlh217 wrote:
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> How do you defragment your hard drive with FreeBSD 2.2.8 Release.

There should be no need to... The filesystem used by FreeBSD provides
excellent space allocation (providing you keep ~10% of the filesystem free)...
If you _really_ wanted to defrag it, you'd have to backup all the data from
the filesystem, newfs it - then copy all the data back...

-Kp


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