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> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 12:56 PM
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> Subject: File-systems
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> Hi again :-)
>
> Just some filesystem questions.
> What filesystem does FreeBSD use for disks (1.44mb and 120 mb). In
> windows they use ms-dos, but my guess is that we don't use FFS for
> disks? and how do I format a disk to our filesystem?
Just a clarification, but windows 9x and below uses FAT(16/32). DOS
sits on fat. FreeBSD I believe uses UFS for drive access and can be
used via /stand/sysinstall. I don't recall what the acronym means.
>
> Why is it what we don't have to fragment our hard-disks all the time
> like I did in windows? I also heard that the filesystem for hard-disk
> will be updated in FreeBSD 5.0, can you guide my to some info about
> this?
You are close, on windows you need to de-fragment the hard drive.
Fragmentation slows down a system a little bit. Fragmentation usually
occurs when you are doing lots of file creation/deletion. My 2 freebsd
boxen don't do this on a normal basis, so the drives don't get too
fragmented.
>
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> socketd
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