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From: mikko@dynas.se (Mikko Tyolajarvi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Defraging my drives???
Date: 17 Mar 1997 11:41:28 +0100
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kaosman@protec.net (Rob Voss) writes:

>I was curious... Everytime I boot up in FreeBSD I get a % value for the 
>fragmentation on my hard drive.. How do I defrag it since it is fragmented?

Easy. Pad all your files to be a multiple of the file system block size! :-)

Sorry, couldn't resist...  "Fragmentation" in unix (FFS) and DOS (FAT) are
quite different things.  The two concepts have nothing in common at all.

One could say that what DOS defragmentation programs do, unix does continuously.

Don't worry about it. There's nothing you *can* do :-)

>Thanks in advance
>-Rob Voss

>P.S. If it's not too much trouble could you send a copy of your reply to 
>kaosman@protec.net

	Regards,
	/Mikko
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 Mikko Työläjärvi_____________________________________________mikko@dynas.se
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