On 28 Nov 2008, at 19:27, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
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I don't buy into that argument and never did. Every few months I
copy the
whole HD to another one and then back to counter fragmentation
(ext3) and
the system becomes noticeably faster after doing it (speed increase
in
emerge --sync for example.) Maybe it's not fragmentation but
rather related
files being more closely together after I do this.
How exactly do you copy the files? Be careful not to lose some file
property. How about sparse files, for example?
AFAIK, you can make a complete backup of a filesytem with (as root,
running from another system - such as a liveCD)
$ cd /path/to/mountpoint
$ tar -cSv -f /path/to/tarball.tar .
Shouldn't creating a stage4 be safe for this?
There are a number of scripts on the forums (or the wiki?) that are
supposed to be safe for creating stage4s from a live system. I think
this would result in minimal downtime.(??)
Stroller.
