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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How can I "defrag" my hard drive? Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 23:51:58 +0900 Organization: CET Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3200C48E.6126@cet.co.jp> References: <32010808.ABD@ctcc.gov.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: a10m.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Andr=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9?= Coetzee wrote: > > QUESTION 1: > When I boot up FreeBSD (2.1.5R) I see, amongst others, information about > the number of fragmented files. You're talking about fragments of disk blocks which is normal and has nothing to do with what you think it is. > Is this automatically cleaned up when I run the daily/weekly/monthly > procedures, or is there some utility program I should run to "defrag" my > drives? If you're really having performance problems caused by fragmented files you need to backup, newfs, and restore. It's unlikely that you are have a problem. Mike Hancock