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Date:      Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:28:57 +0100
From:      Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Defragment HDD
Message-ID:  <20030725212857.GC1715@users.munk.nu>
In-Reply-To: <20030724201242.GC32490@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307241548210.73690-100000@lexus.isprime.com> <004501c3521d$e8532c40$3501a8c0@pro.sk> <20030724201242.GC32490@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:12:42PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> I think he was joking :)  The FFS filesystem reserves 8% of the disk
> space so that it can allocate contiguous blocks for files.  In general,
> you don't have to worry about file fragmentation.  There are no tools
> for optimizing the layout of a disk (putting files in a directory next
> to each other on disk, for example) like SpeedDisk does, though.
Is this why occasionally a df call shows that a filesystem is over 100% 
full out of curiousity?
tuning
-- 
Jez

http://www.munk.nu/



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