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On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote: |
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> I did a little test. Something fishy here. I did a test with the |
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> /data partition. I store pictures and documents there and it was |
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> fragmented. I cp -av to another reiserfs formatted partition then |
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> remade the file system and copied it back using basically the same |
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> command just in reverse. This is what I got now: |
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> root@smoker / # /root/fragck.pl /data/ |
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> 3.88457269700333% non contiguous files, 1.04344379261138 average |
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> fragments. root@smoker / # |
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> That is not a lot better than it was before. It was 4.6% before. |
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> How is that? I copied it over then ran the command right after |
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> without even touching the files. |
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Before you copy back, you have to "clean" the old partition - either |
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by deleting everything or by partioning it. |
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Uwe |
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Informal Linux Group Namibia: |
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http://www.linux.org.na/ |
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SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/ |
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