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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:59:57
Message-Id: 49475FF2.3050205@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly by Dale
1 Dale wrote:
2 > Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> This is interesting. I am starting a new install on my backup drive.
5 >> I'm part way through the install, fetching all the KDE stuff right now.
6 >> This is what I got from the little frag script:
7 >>
8 >> root@smoker / # /root/fragck.pl /backup/
9 >> 0.953336175120985% non contiguous files, 1.02414182192021 average fragments.
10 >> root@smoker / #
11 >>
12 >> Less than 1% is my starting point I guess. This currently has ext3 on
13 >> it. I did start out with a freshly formatted file system. Also, this
14 >> is all on one big partition at the moment.
15 >>
16 >> I'll post later what it says after compiling a few packages. I figure
17 >> KDE should stir up something. LOL
18 >>
19 >> Dale
20 >>
21 >> :-) :-)
22 >>
23 >>
24 >>
25 >
26 > This is after a almost complete install. About to start OOo.
27 >
28 > root@smoker / # /root/fragck.pl /backup/
29 > 2.00854614717917% non contiguous files, 1.04611358582092 average fragments.
30 > root@smoker / #
31 >
32 > root@smoker / # du -shc /backup/
33 > 5.6G /backup/
34 > 5.6G total
35 > root@smoker / #
36 >
37 > I would assume that would be something like it was when I started my
38 > current install years ago. Which is at 10% or so now.
39 >
40 > Thoughts anyone?
41 >
42 > Dale
43 >
44 > :-) :-)
45 >
46 >
47
48 OK. I completed my install and got everything working. This is what I
49 got after that:
50
51 2.24954051453251% non contiguous files, 1.06439409487064 average fragments.
52
53 I then ran shake just to see if it changed for the better or worse. I
54 got this surprising answer:
55
56 25.2668178520421% non contiguous files, 1.41060290111655 average fragments.
57
58 You may want to look twice at the decimal point. It appears that shake
59 makes things much worse or the fragck script has some serious issues
60 one. I have no clue which.
61
62 I'm not to worried about this since I will be moving this over to the
63 other drive anyway. I would like to know what command I should use to
64 tar up everything, transfer it over and untar it all on one line if
65 possible? I plan to do this while booted from a Gentoo CD. I just want
66 to try this so that it will be compressed then transfered and untared
67 once on the way. Does this make since? I have used cp -av in the past.
68
69 Thanks.
70
71 Dale
72
73 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly Daniel Troeder <daniel@×××××××××.com>