On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 00:22 +0200, Damir Perisa wrote: > 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... :( >
Just a thought.. It is strictly necessary to tar/untar a whole partition to defrag it? Wouldn't it work directory-wise? _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
