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.ht
> 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 j
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> From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 9:27 PM
> To: Mazen S. Alzogbi
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> Subject: Re: Disk defragmentation
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> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can I defragment my HD
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
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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
>
> 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
Hi,
How can I defragment my HDD partitions in FreeBSD?
Cheers,
Mazen
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