cleaning

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:55:21AM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
> Rogue Spider wrote:
> 
> >is there a freebsd equivalent to scandisk and
> >diskdefrag so that i can clean the drive it says on
> >start up that the dir are fragmented but after that i
> >am unsertain.
> > 
> >
> 
> If there is "fragmentation", it is cleaned up
> in the boot process (for 4.x) or done in
> the background after booting (on 5.x).

fsck does not "defragment" the filesystem, but doing so is not
necessary except under extreme usage patterns, because UFS is not so
badly-designed as to require regular defragmentation.

Kris
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