More on file fragmentation, torrents, etc.....
shmuel siegel
fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Wed Apr 28 07:32:37 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 10:15, Tom Mitchell wrote:
> If it is really slowing you down, you should be able to clean it up by
> stopping the torrent making a copy and remove the downloaded file with
> all the insane extents, then rename the copied files back as they
> were and then restart torrent.
>
> Something like:
> mv FC2-test3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.is foo
> cp foo FC2-test3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso
> rm foo
> or better yet:
> cp FC2-test3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.is foo
> filefrag FC2-test3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.is foo
> # pick the best and give it the name you and torrent expect.
>
> It might take a couple of copy and move cycles of these big old files
> for the filesystem to tidy things up... much will depend on how full
> the FS is and what else is going on.
>
Is there no more direct way to defrag a file. Some automatic tool.
e2fsck reports that by /boot partition has 20% fragmentation. I would
like to clean that up without using such an error prone procedure as
copying and renaming files
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