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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!news.PBI.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!nmia!gallup.cia-g.com!lithium From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How can I "defrag" my hard drive? Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 21:06:49 -0600 Organization: New Mexico Internet Access Lines: 30 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960811210449.5303A-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> References: <32010808.ABD@ctcc.gov.za> <01bb8100$0be8a640$0f02000a@jamesben> NNTP-Posting-Host: gallup.cia-g.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE In-Reply-To: <01bb8100$0be8a640$0f02000a@jamesben> On 3 Aug 1996, James Benham wrote: >=20 > Andr=E9 Coetzee <acoetzee@ctcc.gov.za> wrote in article > <32010808.ABD@ctcc.gov.za>... > > QUESTION 1: > > When I boot up FreeBSD (2.1.5R) I see, amongst others, information abou= t=20 > > the number of fragmented files. > >=20 > > Is this automatically cleaned up when I run the daily/weekly/monthly=20 > > procedures, or is there some utility program I should run to "defrag" m= y=20 > > drives? >=20 > I believe that running "fsck" should do the closest thing to defrag. It > will check your partitions for errors=20 > and then try and fix the errors... more like scandisk, but it does > partition problems These file fragments are not the same as a fragmented DOS FAT drive. =20 They do not hender performance like a dos fragmented drive. - Steve - Systems Manager - Community Internet Access - http://www.cia-g.com