Defragment HDD

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:38:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
>On Thursday 24 July 2003 02:45 pm, Peter Rosa wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> is it possible, and by using what program, to defragment
>> HDDs under FreeBSD ?
>
>Why are you worried about it? Professional-grade filesystems such as UFS 
>do not require or benefit the way Microsoft-grade filesystems do. This 
>is a common problem in that people can not imagine that the Microsoft 
>way is any but the only way.

Maybe this is a marketing opportunity!  Write a do-nothing program that
keeps the HD light flashing, displays something like the typical M$ defrag
utility, and perhaps even simulates a random system crash and reboot.

Bill
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