Resizing and defragmenting Linux filesystems (NewsForge)

Resizing and defragmenting Linux filesystems (NewsForge)

Posted Oct 14, 2003 3:55 UTC (Tue) by hisdad (subscriber, #5375)
In reply to: Resizing and defragmenting Linux filesystems (NewsForge) by welinder
Parent article: Resizing and defragmenting Linux filesystems (NewsForge)

Because thats easier to say than do.
I doubt if anything other than special tools can do it.
You can't even find if a file is fragmented from normal system calls.
Sparse allocation makes it worse. If you copy a sparse file you will un-sparse it.

--dad

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