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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