Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 18:48:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se> To: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Defragging Message-ID: <XFMail.990527184846.tw@ettnet.se> In-Reply-To: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179625@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>
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>> Do you need to defrag FreeBSD, and how? > [ML] In normal operation, no. At least, not in the FAT sense. > The default *BSD filesystem (FFS) manages quite well to keep the > files and free spaces contiguous. There are extreme cases (zillions of > very small but growing files) when fragmentation may become an issue but > this is more an application design issue (mistake, some would say) than > a filesystem problem. In that case dump followed by newfs and restore > may help. Thank You Marino ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se> Date: 27-May-99 Time: 18:47:30 FreeBSD 3.1 XFMail 1.3 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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