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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!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Defraging my drives??? Date: 20 Mar 1997 14:18:53 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 18 Sender: mathnews@synge.maths.tcd.ie Message-ID: <5grh0d$7ct@synge.maths.tcd.ie> References: <5ghvcj$gul$1@brokaw.wa.com> <5gk6pc$mdq@graves.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: synge.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37543 dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) writes: >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. As someone pointed out, this might be misleading. The backup restore process might reduce the number of blocks used for fragments, but this doesn't do you any real good. The process I indicated is pointless except in quite unusual situations. David.