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Richard Fish <bigfish <at> asmallpond.org> writes: |
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> For large files, I think xfs has a slight edge over reiserfs. |
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I've had several machine on 100% reiserfs and been very happy, |
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with the performance, and never had to recover, even when |
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an unexpected power loss occured. It was time I looked into |
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a new FS but, I do not see much performance gain over reiserfs, |
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except for reiser4, which is not recommend. Reiserfs has |
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been very, stable for the gentoo systems I manage. |
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> > I have a problem I thought I had solved. I have tried |
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> > Partition Magic 7.0, repartitioning on the experimental livecd for |
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> > amd64 and now the livecd from Gparted. All allow resizing of the |
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> > 85 Gig ntfs partition, but, when I go to commit(run). All three |
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> > fail. No matter what I do, I cannot reduce the 85Gig down to 30gig. |
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> If you look at the filesystem in a tool that will show you what files |
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> occupy which extents (like O&ODefrag), you can take a look at what |
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> (locked) files exist near the end of the filesystem. Things like |
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> c:\hiberfil.sys and c:\$log are nearly impossible to move, so they |
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> could be the source of the problem. |
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> If this is the case, you might have no choice but to reformat and |
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> reinstall XP if you want a smaller NTFS volume. |
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Well I did not get a XP-pro installation disk with this portable. |
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The portable has a second partition with XP on it, used for recovery. |
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This partition is located at the end of the drive. |
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They (HP) included instructions for recovery and reinstallation |
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for XP. 36 hours later, I'm getting pretty close to nuking the XP |
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and if I cannot restore XP from the disk, I will just purchase |
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XP-pro and install it on the new (reduced size) partition. Can I |
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reformat the drive make a smaller partition for XP and recover |
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XP from the the XP installation/recovery partition to a smaller |
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partition. say 30 Gig.Sound like a viable option? |
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Is there any free download software (even if it's a binary) to |
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defrag this ntfs partition, for an amd64 ? Googling for |
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{O&ODefrag +amd64 } does not produce anything useful. |
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