defrag

[Vince Hoffman]

Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Kevin Kinsey wrote:
>> Steve Franks wrote:
>>> How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find
>>> anything related to defrag in the ports tree?  Is it really not an
>>> issue on UFS?  Can someone point me to an explantion if so?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Steve
>>
>> I'm thinking this one's in the FAQ at freebsd.org.
>>
> 
> Bah!  HEADS-UP:  Ignore any advice I feel compelled to give today.  Two
> retractions in one hour would seem to demonstrate a cranial
> short-circuit this morning.  Steve, it's not in the FAQ.
> 
> Here's a link to a brief mailist discussion:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2003-July/000932.html
> 
> Assuming you have Ghostscript installed (which may be a big IF), you
> might be able to take a gander at the document mentioned with something
> like:
> 
> groff /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/* ~/ffs.ps
> ps2pdf ~/ffs.ps
> acroread ~/ffs.pdf
> 
> But there's probably a better way --- I'm certainly "one offing" today.
> 

If you dont mind reading in a terminal.
gzcat /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/* | more
does the trick fine for me. By the way thanks for the link to the doc.

Vince


> Kevin Kinsey