Re: Disk defragmentation
On 2004-01-07 21:30, Mazen S. Alzogbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I just landed from MS Planet to FreeBSD and I am NOT leaving :) Cool, welcome to FreeBSD then! A good starting point, if you haven't already discovered it, is our docs collection at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html Happy FreeBSD'ing :) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk defragmentation
Hi, How can I defragment my HDD partitions in FreeBSD? You don't need to. The FreeBSD file systems don't have a problem with fragmentation.If you run fsck and see the word fragments, it means something other than in the MS world. But, if you insist on doing it, your best bet would be to use dump(8) to make a complete backup of the filesystem. Then re-newfs(8) it and then restore(8) the backup in to it. jerry Cheers, Mazen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Disk defragmentation
Yeah, I just landed from MS Planet to FreeBSD and I am NOT leaving :) Thanks for the explanation. Cheers, Mazen -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 9:27 PM To: Mazen S. Alzogbi Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disk defragmentation Hi, How can I defragment my HDD partitions in FreeBSD? You don't need to. The FreeBSD file systems don't have a problem with fragmentation.If you run fsck and see the word fragments, it means something other than in the MS world. But, if you insist on doing it, your best bet would be to use dump(8) to make a complete backup of the filesystem. Then re-newfs(8) it and then restore(8) the backup in to it. jerry Cheers, Mazen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk defragmentation
Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: Hi, How can I defragment my HDD partitions in FreeBSD? Cheers, Mazen FBSD partitions do not need degframenting. The native UFS does a great job of allocating space. Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk defragmentation
Yeah, I just landed from MS Planet to FreeBSD and I am NOT leaving :) You mean you just escaped from MS alter-world that is striving to disolve the real world. Congradulations! jerry Thanks for the explanation. Cheers, Mazen -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 9:27 PM To: Mazen S. Alzogbi Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disk defragmentation Hi, How can I defragment my HDD partitions in FreeBSD? You don't need to. The FreeBSD file systems don't have a problem with fragmentation.If you run fsck and see the word fragments, it means something other than in the MS world. But, if you insist on doing it, your best bet would be to use dump(8) to make a complete backup of the filesystem. Then re-newfs(8) it and then restore(8) the backup in to it. jerry Cheers, Mazen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk defragmentation
How can I defragment my HDD partitions in FreeBSD? As I understand it, instead of writing instantly to disk (breaking things up to do so, a la Windows), FreeBSD (and Linux, Solaris, etc...) caches disk writes until a proper place on the disk can be found. This is why it can be disastrous to just shut off a FreeBSD system (i.e. pull the plug). A proper shutdown insures all the not-yet-written things get written to disk. Welcome to the brave new world of FreeBSD. Cheers! -- Michael A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer at Large ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
