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#! rnews 1746 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.intersurf.net!smhs.ebrps.subr.edu!usenet From: "James Benham" <jbenham@isis.ebrps.subr.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How can I "defrag" my hard drive? Date: 3 Aug 1996 05:53:40 GMT Organization: Scotlandville Magnet High School Lines: 30 Message-ID: <01bb8100$0be8a640$0f02000a@jamesben> References: <32010808.ABD@ctcc.gov.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: smhs.ebrps.subr.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1132 André 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 about > the number of fragmented files. > > 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? I believe that running "fsck" should do the closest thing to defrag. It will check your partitions for errors and then try and fix the errors... more like scandisk, but it does partition problems > QUESTION 2: > When I boot up FreeBSD (2.1.5R), I have to type in 1:sd(0,a)/kernel in > order to boot from BIOS drive 1. Is there a way to make that line the > default? (I am also a DOS user, and while I am a novice at FreeBSD, I > want to have both Operating Systems available). Try looking for something related with the boot manager... that's all I know about it. > Many thanks ... ac > > P.S. Thanks for the help with the "su root" problem, its working fine > now. >