Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:38:06 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Defragment HDD Message-ID: <200307241538.06338.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <001a01c3521c$348ca3e0$3501a8c0@pro.sk> References: <001a01c3521c$348ca3e0$3501a8c0@pro.sk>
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On Thursday 24 July 2003 02:45 pm, Peter Rosa wrote: > Hi all, > > is it possible, and by using what program, to defragment > HDDs under FreeBSD ? Why are you worried about it? Professional-grade filesystems such as UFS do not require or benefit the way Microsoft-grade filesystems do. This is a common problem in that people can not imagine that the Microsoft way is any but the only way. Otherwise such a tool would be integrated in the default periodic system utilities such as launched from /etc/periodic/. SGI did include such a filesystem maintenance tool in Irix launched nightly by cron. Forgot if it was for EFS or XFS. The boot time "fragmentation" message speaks of something else, due to the filesystem being nearly full. If you really must "defragment" then the only option is dump(8), newfs(8), and restore(8). -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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