Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

[Benno Schulenberg]

Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> ~ (more or less) the 10% of the filesystem is
> non-contiguous. I suppose that the problem is that I've saved and
> then deleted some files really big, and there's a hole.
>
> 	Well, I'd like to recover those holes (that 10% of the disk)

There are no holes, there is nothing to recover.  It just means that 
10% of the files are not allocated as a single contiguous string of 
blocks, which makes reading these files just a little bit slower.  
Nothing to worry about.

If you really want to "defrag" the file system, then copy everything 
to another partition, recreate the file system, and copy everything 
back:  cd /parti1; tar -cf - . | (cd /parti2; tar -xpvf -)
But this isn't worth the time it costs.

Benno
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