Defragment HDD

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com
Thu Jul 24 13:31:15 PDT 2003


"Peter Rosa" <prosa at pro.sk> writes:

> OK, but it is not the "real defragmenting" like Norton Speedisk or MS Defrag
> on windoze machines.
> Is there anything other ?

The term doesn't typically refer to quite the same thing on Unix.  No
defragmentation program of that type is needed, due to different filesystem
internals.  See the old (but still useful) /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs
for a bit of a better introduction.


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