Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 10:46:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Cc: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, valtech@caribnet.net, terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: defrags Message-ID: <199606171746.KAA08131@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199606162333.XAA00571@jraynard.demon.co.uk> from "James Raynard" at Jun 16, 96 11:33:50 pm
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> > This is because you are using more disk space, no doubt ... I REALLY > > wouldn't worry. I think you are getting confused between DOS > > fragmentation and FFS fragmentation ... > > It's unfortunate that they use the same word is used for rather > different things. > > DOS fragmentation means that a file is split into parts because DOS > wasn't intelligent enough to work out how to write it as a single, > contiguous file. > > FFS fragmentation means that, instead of being wasted, unused space in > a block is used for storing small files, which would otherwise need a > block of their own and waste even more space. Let's look at an > example:- [ ... example and picture ... ] Thanks James; I should have thought of a picture, since I guess I'm known for them ;-). I hope you don't mind that I'm going to steal this for future use... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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