On Friday 15 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 15 February 2008, Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
That aside, how would gaps *between* files ever translate into
fragmentation unless the author of that particular piece of
Uwe Thiem wrote:
Back in the days when I still used DOS, one certainly wanted to
defragment periodically. The system became significantly more
performant for a while. On Linux/Unix, I never bothered.
Uwe
Yea, I remember those days too. Put the disk and get it started then
wait
On Friday 15 February 2008, Dale wrote:
Uwe Thiem wrote:
Back in the days when I still used DOS, one certainly wanted to
defragment periodically. The system became significantly more
performant for a while. On Linux/Unix, I never bothered.
Uwe
Yea, I remember those days too. Put the
Hi,
I'm not wanting to start a flame or anything but I have a question, or
two, on file fragmentation. I have three hard drives here. This is how
they are partitioned at the moment:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # df
Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed
Available
Hello
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:06:43AM -0600, Dale wrote:
My questions; is this badly fragmented? How can I unfragment all the
files and not bork something up badly?
My opinion on this tho, considering this install is about 4 years old, not
to bad. I've seen worse on a windoze rig
Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
Hello
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:06:43AM -0600, Dale wrote:
My questions; is this badly fragmented? How can I unfragment all the
files and not bork something up badly?
My opinion on this tho, considering this install is about 4 years old, not
to bad. I've
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Hi,
my 2 cents:
| So if for example I copied everything over to a different hard drive and
| then copied everything back, it would be defragmented then?
I think so yes, but still I would not do it as I think you will hardly
notice the difference,
On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Dale wrote:
The biggest slow down by the way is when logging into KDE the first
time. It takes a long while and that drive is just a getting it. The
light just stays on while loading everything up.
do you use prelink?
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Thomas Kahle wrote:
Hi,
my 2 cents:
| So if for example I copied everything over to a different hard drive and
| then copied everything back, it would be defragmented then?
I think so yes, but still I would not do it as I think you will hardly
notice the difference, but there is a good chance
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:01:16 -0600
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
Hello
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:06:43AM -0600, Dale wrote:
My questions; is this badly fragmented? How can I unfragment
all the files and not bork something up badly?
My opinion on
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Dale wrote:
The biggest slow down by the way is when logging into KDE the first
time. It takes a long while and that drive is just a getting it. The
light just stays on while loading everything up.
do you use prelink?
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Thomas Kahle wrote:
Hi,
my 2 cents:
| So if for example I copied everything over to a different hard
| drive and then copied everything back, it would be defragmented
| then?
I think so yes, but still I would not do it as I think you will
hardly notice the
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:53:57AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked:
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
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Hi, just one more idea that came to my mind,
reiserfs uses a technique to save small files in the filesystem tree
which uses less disk space then. In ext3 a 1 byte file will take up 4k,
while this is not the case in reiserfs.
This yields a
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
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
Daniel Iliev wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:01:16 -0600
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
Hello
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:06:43AM -0600, Dale wrote:
My questions; is this badly fragmented? How can I unfragment
all the files and not bork something
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
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote:
Now I remember why I stopped using prelink:
The only maintenance required is re-running prelink every time a
library is upgraded for a pre-linked executable.
I only prelink after major updates. Never had any problems in between.
I knew there was a
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
On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Dale wrote:
Now I remember why I stopped using prelink:
The only maintenance required is re-running prelink every time a
library is upgraded for a pre-linked executable.
I knew there was a reason I stopped. I never could remember to run it
after I
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Yes, everything will be defragmented. In addition, it will leave gaps
between files. So if a file lateron grows it will not immediately
fragment.
Which will cause a stupid script to report fragmentation if the author
does not understand file
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Dale wrote:
Now I remember why I stopped using prelink:
The only maintenance required is re-running prelink every time a
library is upgraded for a pre-linked executable.
I knew there was a reason I stopped. I never could
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Yes, everything will be defragmented. In addition, it will leave gaps
between files. So if a file lateron grows it will not immediately
fragment.
Which will cause a stupid script to report fragmentation if the author
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Yes, everything will be defragmented. In addition, it will leave
gaps between files. So if a file lateron grows it will not
immediately fragment.
Which will cause a stupid script to report
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote:
I also attached a copy of the program I used. I think I got it off
the forums. Maybe some guru can improve it a little. ;-)
Not me. Perl has been invented to generate reports from log files or
such. It is not a general purpose language, though
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote:
I also attached a copy of the program I used. I think I got it off
the forums. Maybe some guru can improve it a little. ;-)
Not me. Perl has been invented to generate reports from log files or
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
That aside, how would gaps *between* files ever translate into
fragmentation unless the author of that particular piece of software
managed to kill his very last brain cell?
Oops. I had a brain fart there.
--
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
That aside, how would gaps *between* files ever translate into
fragmentation unless the author of that particular piece of software
managed to kill his very last brain cell?
Oops. I had a brain fart there.
You
On Friday 15 February 2008, Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
That aside, how would gaps *between* files ever translate into
fragmentation unless the author of that particular piece of
software managed to kill his very last brain cell?
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