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Brian O'Connor wrote:
> 
> In the process of transferring FreeBSD onto my second PC at home
> I managed to get the /usr filesystem to swap from time optimization
> to space optimization.  The /usr filesystem now reports 5.6 %
> fragmentation.  Is this significant?  How does one go about
> (to use the DOS terminology) compressing this filesystem?  The
> above fragmentation figure is from fsck.
> 

Fragmentation in FreeBSD's FFS is not an issue, It will keep itself
clean.

-Enjoy
Gary
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