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From: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Defraging my drives???
Date: 18 Mar 1997 10:19:38 GMT
Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland
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Rob Voss <kaosman@protec.net> wrote:
>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?

back up the filesystem, and then run newfs to it, restore the backup.

>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


mickey