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Do you defrag FreeBSD machines ?

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halo...@hotmail.com

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Jan 1, 2003, 12:20:31 AM1/1/03
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Please forgive my ignorance. I am VERY new to BSD. But - so far I LOVE it
!
I have not seen or heard anything regarding defragging a BSD machine's hard
drive(s).
Is there a utility to do such a thing? Or, is there even a need to do such
a thing in a UNIX file partition - I mean "slice" :)

Donn Miller

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Jan 1, 2003, 1:52:47 AM1/1/03
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halo...@hotmail.com wrote:

Me too! I love BSD as well, as I've been running it since late '96.
Welcome to the club. Basically, it's very uncessary to degrag FreeBSD's
UFS partitions. If things do manage to get too fragmented, the proper
way would be to backup all your data, reformat the partitions, and
restore everything back onto the newly formatted partition.

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Igor Sobrado

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Jan 1, 2003, 7:50:09 AM1/1/03
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halo...@hotmail.com wrote:

Fragmentation should not seriously hurt performance in a BSD system,
except if the filesystem is more than 90% full. Take a look at the
file paper.ascii.gz that you can find at /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs.

Cheers,
Igor.

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Axel S. Gruner

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Jan 1, 2003, 8:56:37 AM1/1/03
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HiHo.

On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 05:20:31 GMT
<halo...@hotmail.com> wrote something special:

> Please forgive my ignorance. I am VERY new to BSD. But - so far I

> LOVE it I have not seen or heard anything regarding defragging a BSD


> machine's hard drive(s).
> Is there a utility to do such a thing? Or, is there even a need to do
> such a thing in a UNIX file partition - I mean "slice" :)

You dont have to defrag the FreeBSD Unix Filesystem. The highest
defragmentation you can reach is up to 3%.
So, defragmentation is stuff from the Windows world.
If you want some more information just search in google for UFS and
defrag.


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Lowell Gilbert

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Jan 1, 2003, 9:57:45 AM1/1/03
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That's correct, but still deceptive. The word "fragmentation" has
different meanings in UFS and FAT filesystems. They are more or less
unrelated concepts. And for more information on how your BSD system
lays out files in a partition, /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/paper.ascii.gz
(while ancient) is still the best place to start.

Halon314

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Jan 1, 2003, 1:58:08 PM1/1/03
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"Lowell Gilbert" <low...@world.std.com> wrote in message
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Wow, Thanks, guys!!! I REALLY appreciate the quick response & information.
Once again, use of the newsgroups has yielded a plethora of information to
answer my question!


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