On 10/2/05, Tamouh H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was just wondering if like in Windows disk fragmentation > > arises, and if so then how should one go about defragmenting it? > > There is no fragmentation in the BSD file systems, that is something related > to Windows only. You might want to add the line: > > fsck_y_enable="YES" > > to your /etc/rc.conf in the event fsck finds errors on your disks. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
Of course there is fragmentation. UFS, particularly its implementation in FreeBSD is more intelligent than NTFS/FAT32. When there is enough free space on the disk (typically more than 15%, see tunefs(8) for details), I/O is automatically optimized to minimize fragmentation. When your win32 box is idle, but the hdd is scratching it's very annoying, because you know that windows is swapping something. When your bsd box is idle, but the hdd is scratching it's quite pleasant, 'cuz that's some hard-working daemons make sure that you don't loose any data, and always can enjoy the maximum performance. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
