Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
Hello
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:06:43AM -0600, Dale wrote:
My questions; is this badly fragmented? How can I "unfragment" all the
files and not bork something up badly?
My opinion on this tho, considering this install is about 4 years old, not
to bad. I've seen worse on a windoze rig shortly after a install. ;-)
I would guess the fragmented files are the big ones. And, with average
of 2 fragments per file, it is not too much. If you have a movie with
30MB fragments, then it is no problem.
Unless you hear lot of rattling noise from the HDD, you could leave it
as is.
And the surest way to defragment a filesystem is take everything out and
put it back again. It will write the files one after another and will
have no reason to split them.
So if for example I copied everything over to a different hard drive and
then copied everything back, it would be "defragmented" then?
I would think of something like this:
Boot some live CD.
Mount old and backup drives.
Copy old drive to a backup drive using cp -av yada yada.
Make a new file system on the old drive to make sure all is clean.
Copy everything back over from the backup to the old drive using cp -av
yada yada.
I would also take the opportunity to redo a few partitions while I was
able to.
The biggest slow down by the way is when logging into KDE the first
time. It takes a long while and that drive is just a getting it. The
light just stays on while loading everything up.
Your thoughts and others if needed.
Dale
:-) :-) :-)
--
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
