On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:38:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: >On Thursday 24 July 2003 02:45 pm, Peter Rosa wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> is it possible, and by using what program, to defragment >> HDDs under FreeBSD ? > >Why are you worried about it? Professional-grade filesystems such as UFS >do not require or benefit the way Microsoft-grade filesystems do. This >is a common problem in that people can not imagine that the Microsoft >way is any but the only way.
Maybe this is a marketing opportunity! Write a do-nothing program that keeps the HD light flashing, displays something like the typical M$ defrag utility, and perhaps even simulates a random system crash and reboot. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Government is the great fiction, through which everbody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"