Re: [OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-11-03 Thread Peter Gordon
Richard Fish said: Based on what the developers presented at the 2005 OLS, delayed allocation, and an extents-based format (ext4?) are coming: http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2005/linuxsymposium_procv1.pdf That looks very intriguing. :-D Thanks for your thorough explanations, Richard! --Peter

Re: [OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-11-02 Thread Richard Fish
Peter Gordon wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:34 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] In any case, xfs has a tool called 'xfs_fsr' Which means 'file system reorganizer'. It does

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-11-01 Thread Harald Arnesen
Joshua Schmidlkofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] And if you do, make sure you have a good UPS. -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi, Each 20 times that my hard disk is mounted, my ext3 partition (is the only one that I have) gets checked for inconsistencies. On the last times that that task has been runned, it tells me that ~ (more or less) the 10% of the filesystem is non-contiguous. I suppose that the

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Rafael Fernández López wrote: ~ (more or less) the 10% of the filesystem is non-contiguous. I suppose that the problem is that I've saved and then deleted some files really big, and there's a hole. Well, I'd like to recover those holes (that 10% of the disk) There are no holes, there

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Dale
Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi, Well, I'd like to recover those holes (that 10% of the disk) and how to do it, because I've tried with e2fsck with different options and read man e2fsck with no possitive results. Thanks, Rafael Fernández López. There was a guru on the forums that

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 10/31/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafael Fernández López wrote:Hi,Well, I'd like to recover those holes (that 10% of the disk) and how todo it, because I've tried with e2fsck with different options and readman e2fsck with no possitive results. Thanks,Rafael Fernández López.There was a

[OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Gordon
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:34 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] In any case, xfs has a tool called 'xfs_fsr' Which means 'file system reorganizer'. It does defragmentation, and

Re: [OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Dale
Peter Gordon wrote: For what it's worth, I've never had a *single* problem with Ext3, and I've been using it with various distributions since I first started playing with GNU/Linux a few weeks after Fedora Core 1 was released. --Peter I use reiserfs and have had no problems either. I still