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 -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na/ -- [email protected] mailing list
