Defragment HDD

Jez Hancock jez.hancock at munk.nu
Fri Jul 25 14:29:00 PDT 2003


On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:12:42PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> I think he was joking :)  The FFS filesystem reserves 8% of the disk
> space so that it can allocate contiguous blocks for files.  In general,
> you don't have to worry about file fragmentation.  There are no tools
> for optimizing the layout of a disk (putting files in a directory next
> to each other on disk, for example) like SpeedDisk does, though.
Is this why occasionally a df call shows that a filesystem is over 100% 
full out of curiousity?
tuning
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Jez

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