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On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote: |
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> Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote: |
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> >> I did a little test. Something fishy here. I did a test with |
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> >> the /data partition. I store pictures and documents there and |
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> >> it was fragmented. I cp -av to another reiserfs formatted |
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> >> partition then remade the file system and copied it back using |
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> >> basically the same command just in reverse. This is what I got |
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> >> now: |
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> >> root@smoker / # /root/fragck.pl /data/ |
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> >> 3.88457269700333% non contiguous files, 1.04344379261138 average |
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> >> fragments. root@smoker / # |
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> >> That is not a lot better than it was before. It was 4.6% |
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> >> before. How is that? I copied it over then ran the command |
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> >> right after without even touching the files. |
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> > |
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> > Before you copy back, you have to "clean" the old partition - |
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> > either by deleting everything or by partioning it. |
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> > |
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> > Uwe |
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> I just did a mkreiserfs /dev/hdb1. That should work right? |
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Actually, I meant "by formatting it" instead of "partioning". So yes, |
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that should work. |
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Maybe fragch.pl is simply buggy. |
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Uwe |
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Informal Linux Group Namibia: |
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http://www.linux.org.na/ |
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SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/ |
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