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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Defraging my drives???
Date: 17 Mar 1997 19:41:32 -0000
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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?

You'll probably notice that the %fragmentation is very low, and so
not much to worry about. If you really want to de-frag it then you
could backup the filesystem and restore it, but chances are you won't
be able to tell the difference.

	David.