Defragment HDD

Peter Rosa prosa at pro.sk
Fri Jul 25 00:03:54 PDT 2003


SORRY, SORRY AND ONE MORE SORRY.

I love FBSD very much, but it really writes (during boot-up) something about
fragmentation.
So I forgot about its professionality and so for a moment and write my
stupid question to the list.
At least, everyone will now know...

Sincerelly

Peter Rosa



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Campbell" <freebsd at celestial.com>
To: <FreeBSD-Questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:16 AM
Subject: Re: Defragment HDD


> 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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