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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

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E-Mail: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se>
Date: 27-May-99
Time: 18:47:30

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