Re: [FreeBSD] Silly Question

2004-06-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Ok gang don't be to rough. > I am a long time windows user, > and am used to running disk maintenance. > Scandisk, defrag, etc > Do I need to run something similar on FreeBSD? > or not? Not those, but you should set yourself up a nice backup script/routine and dump(8) everything to something

Re: [FreeBSD] Silly Question

2004-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
"LW Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok gang don't be to rough. > I am a long time windows user, > and am used to running disk maintenance. > Scandisk, defrag, etc > Do I need to run something similar on FreeBSD? > or not? > I let my machine run 24/7 and have received the weekend reports > (wh

Re: [FreeBSD] Silly Question

2004-06-21 Thread Sergey Zaharchenko
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:12:02AM +0200, Jan Muenther probably wrote: > > fsck is what your looking for. > > > > To find out more type: > > man fsck > > Hm, not really. UFS doesn't fragment as hard as FAT or NTFS do, so there's no > need to actively defragment it. Just a small correction: fsck

Re: [FreeBSD] Silly Question

2004-06-21 Thread Jan Muenther
> fsck is what your looking for. > > To find out more type: > man fsck Hm, not really. UFS doesn't fragment as hard as FAT or NTFS do, so there's no need to actively defragment it. It's just a tad bit more clever with block allocation than those other file- systems. You don't need to run fsck m

Re: [FreeBSD] Silly Question

2004-06-21 Thread Edd
fsck is what your looking for. To find out more type: man fsck On 6/21/2004, "LW Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ok gang don't be to rough. >I am a long time windows user, >and am used to running disk maintenance. >Scandisk, defrag, etc >Do I need to run something similar on FreeBSD? >or not