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On 28 Nov 2008, at 19:27, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: |
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>> ... |
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>> I don't buy into that argument and never did. Every few months I |
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>> copy the |
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>> whole HD to another one and then back to counter fragmentation |
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>> (ext3) and |
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>> the system becomes noticeably faster after doing it (speed increase |
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>> in |
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>> emerge --sync for example.) Maybe it's not fragmentation but |
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>> rather related |
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>> files being more closely together after I do this. |
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> How exactly do you copy the files? Be careful not to lose some file |
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> property. How about sparse files, for example? |
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> AFAIK, you can make a complete backup of a filesytem with (as root, |
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> running from another system - such as a liveCD) |
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> $ cd /path/to/mountpoint |
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> $ tar -cSv -f /path/to/tarball.tar . |
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Shouldn't creating a stage4 be safe for this? |
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There are a number of scripts on the forums (or the wiki?) that are |
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supposed to be safe for creating stage4s from a live system. I think |
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this would result in minimal downtime.(??) |
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Stroller. |