Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:42:33 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Suresh M <sureshpoornam@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need help Message-ID: <48802D49.5080002@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <35d53dbf0807160033l6380a537o1e4051136e9ca438@mail.gmail.com> References: <35d53dbf0807160033l6380a537o1e4051136e9ca438@mail.gmail.com>
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Suresh M wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Dell machine with FreeBSD 6.2 with Seagate SCSI disk. After a > prolonged time, one of the partitions got 3% of fragmentation. > > Can anyone help; > how can we check the fragmentation level of partitions ? Is there any > utility for de-fragmenting it ? > While any fragmentation is quite undesirable in MSDOS, it's mostly normal and expected in UFS. 3% fragmentation for a large volume is not unusual or particularly bad. Scott
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