From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 26 10:56:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA25955 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 10:54:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24820 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 10:46:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA18861; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 12:44:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 12:44:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@localhost To: Tim Vanderhoek cc: manning@bear.cs.zorg.edu, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Defragmentation program/port In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chuck Robey wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Apr 1998 manning@bear.cs.zorg.edu wrote: > > > Is there a program or a port that you can use to defragment your hard- > > > drive? Like defrag for dos? > [...] > > made very much of a performance difference ... probably relying on folks > > not understanding the underlying differences in the dos and ffs > > filesystems. > > IOW, effectively handles defragmentation automatically. :-) Not with 100 percent effectiveness, but very good. The smallish remainder is the reason the companies offering the unix defraggers exist. IMO without good reason, but they exist. > > > -- > Only two other people have a .sig like this one. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message