Disk defragmentation

[Michael A. Smith]

 > How can I defragment my HDD partitions in FreeBSD?

As I understand it, instead of writing instantly to disk (breaking 
things up to do so, a la Windows), FreeBSD (and Linux, Solaris, etc...) 
caches disk writes until a proper place on the disk can be found.

This is why it can be disastrous to just shut off a FreeBSD system (i.e. 
pull the plug). A proper shutdown insures all the not-yet-written things 
get written to disk.

Welcome to the brave new world of FreeBSD. Cheers!

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Michael A. Smith <msmith at code-fu.com>
Programmer at Large