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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:36:01
Message-Id: 6AF14B6C-DEBF-4B99-9F70-0A5B1F40C22F@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly by Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
1 On 28 Nov 2008, at 19:27, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
2 >> ...
3 >> I don't buy into that argument and never did. Every few months I
4 >> copy the
5 >> whole HD to another one and then back to counter fragmentation
6 >> (ext3) and
7 >> the system becomes noticeably faster after doing it (speed increase
8 >> in
9 >> emerge --sync for example.) Maybe it's not fragmentation but
10 >> rather related
11 >> files being more closely together after I do this.
12 >
13 > How exactly do you copy the files? Be careful not to lose some file
14 > property. How about sparse files, for example?
15 > AFAIK, you can make a complete backup of a filesytem with (as root,
16 > running from another system - such as a liveCD)
17 > $ cd /path/to/mountpoint
18 > $ tar -cSv -f /path/to/tarball.tar .
19
20 Shouldn't creating a stage4 be safe for this?
21
22 There are a number of scripts on the forums (or the wiki?) that are
23 supposed to be safe for creating stage4s from a live system. I think
24 this would result in minimal downtime.(??)
25
26 Stroller.