Tuesday 18 April 2006 23:27, Ryan Ply wrote: | The standard way to defragment in linux is to copy all your files | to a second drive, and then copy them back.
thank you... that was what i already have thaught about doing... that
may be a valid workaround to the problem, if i would have enough
empty hdd space to do this. unfortunately i'm a poor student not
having big money for hardware... so i was hoping for a nice tool to
do this live (or at least half-live).
however, the problem is that after some years of only doing -Suy, the
reiser3 fs gets very slow... you may remember my thread about copying
the pacman database and moving it back... now implemented as a
feature. the thing is that (however less severe symptoms) the system
files and binaries itself get fragmented over the drive over
time... :(
| When you do that you
| might as well change to XFS and never have to worry again. I've
| heard JFS can defrag on line, not sure. But I run XFS and don't
| have to worry. I can measure my fragmentation, and fix it. Hope
| that helps.
so XFS manages this better it seems... ok, then its clear what fs will
be used for next parititions i create. thank you.
greetings,
Damir
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Unix is the worst operating system; except for all others.
-- Berry Kercheval
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