How to optimize UFS/FFS blocks structure

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Tue Mar 23 17:39:11 PST 2004


Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote:
> Where're utils to optimize UFS/FFS storage (a.k.a. "defragmentation")?

Such utils aren't needed; the Berkeley FFS avoids excessive fragmentation. 
However, if you insist on doing something, perform a backup, newfs, and 
restore using tar or dump.

-- 
-Chuck



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