From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anders Widman Subject: Re: When is a defragmenting tool expected to be released? Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 11:52:34 +0200 Message-ID: <10110111089.20030426115234@tnonline.net> References: <569438017.20030425213516@tnonline.net> <200304261414.00860._nasturtium@bigpond.com> Reply-To: Anders Widman Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200304261414.00860._nasturtium@bigpond.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com > On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 05:35 am, Anders Widman wrote: >> I am curious about if/when a defragmenting tool that support >> reiserfs will be available. Please do not say to tar/untar >> everything. I simply do not have enough storage for that. > No defragmenting tools that I know of, or mentioned on the list. > However, if you just want to check fragmentation there's a program called > mongo, it's a benchmarking package and you can see if your filesystem (or > even individual files) are fragmented. Thanks, I will look it up. I know many files are indeed very fragmented, and if I can find out which I might be able to fix a few manually... All I wanted to know what if there would be a tool that could defragment files. There is no way to avoid fragmentation no matter how smart your filesystem is.