Subject: Re: filesystem health
From: civileme (civileme@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 22:56:30 AKDT
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 09:38 pm, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> > One of my ext2 filesystems is over 50% fragmented. Is there
> > something I can -- or should -- do about this? It seems to
> > work okay. (And yes, that's after an fsck.)
>
> Dude, take a snapshot of that. I ran a webserver on the same fs for over
> two years, and never peaked 8%. That's amazing. Exactly what are you
> doing to that box? ;-)
Well I really really want to know what you did. Only scenario I can think of
is if you concatenated some files in place to one large file and then deleted
files that were in-between.
However, to do something, point your browser here:
http://www.civileme.com/Software/defrag-0.70.tar.gz
It will work for ext2, though I have used it only once, for test purposes. I
have never managed to reach Arthur's level of fragmentation--got to 5.4% once.
btw, there is a 'frag' program in that tarball that will tell you what the
fragmentation is. I would question fsck and be installing a FRESH version of
chkrootkit.
Civileme
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