Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:03:27 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl> Cc: "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Defragmentation needed with FreeBSD ... Message-ID: <cb5206420510020903t8720db9jdb6b5e5ef234304c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1128268728.704.2.camel@localhost> References: <1128254897.26048.11.camel@localhost> <20051002121454.3D1C643D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <cb5206420510020611s560fbe6eoef14ac08cee0b25@mail.gmail.com> <1128268728.704.2.camel@localhost>
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On 10/2/05, Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 17:11 +0400, Andrew P. wrote: > > On 10/2/05, Tamouh H. <hakmi@rogers.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I was just wondering if like in Windows disk fragmentation > > > > arises, and if so then how should one go about defragmenting it? > > > > > > There is no fragmentation in the BSD file systems, that is something = related > > > to Windows only. You might want to add the line: > > > > > > fsck_y_enable=3D"YES" > > > > > > to your /etc/rc.conf in the event fsck finds errors on your disks. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freeb= sd.org" > > > > > > > Of course there is fragmentation. > > > > UFS, particularly its implementation in FreeBSD is > > more intelligent than NTFS/FAT32. When there is > > enough free space on the disk (typically more than > > 15%, see tunefs(8) for details), I/O is automatically > > optimized to minimize fragmentation. > > > > When your win32 box is idle, but the hdd is scratching > > it's very annoying, because you know that windows > > is swapping something. > > > > When your bsd box is idle, but the hdd is scratching > > it's quite pleasant, 'cuz that's some hard-working > > daemons make sure that you don't loose any data, > > and always can enjoy the maximum performance. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org" > > So if I understand you correctly, this means that the disk is > defragmented automatically in the background during idle use, e.g. I do > not have to do anything else to enable it because it is already enabled. > > Correct? > > -- > Kiffin Gish > Gouda, The Netherlands > > It's not that simple, but the fact is that you don't need to worry about fragmentation at all. Just make sure that your drives have at least 15-20% free space for maximum performance.
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