On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote: > >> I did a little test. Something fishy here. I did a test with > >> the /data partition. I store pictures and documents there and > >> it was fragmented. I cp -av to another reiserfs formatted > >> partition then remade the file system and copied it back using > >> basically the same command just in reverse. This is what I got > >> now: > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # /root/fragck.pl /data/ > >> 3.88457269700333% non contiguous files, 1.04344379261138 average > >> fragments. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # > >> > >> That is not a lot better than it was before. It was 4.6% > >> before. How is that? I copied it over then ran the command > >> right after without even touching the files. > > > > Before you copy back, you have to "clean" the old partition - > > either by deleting everything or by partioning it. > > > > Uwe > > I just did a mkreiserfs /dev/hdb1. That should work right?
Actually, I meant "by formatting it" instead of "partioning". So yes, that should work. Maybe fragch.pl is simply buggy. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
