Re: [OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-11-03 Thread Peter Gordon
Richard Fish said: > Based on what the developers presented at the 2005 OLS, delayed > allocation, and an extents-based format (ext4?) are coming: > > http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2005/linuxsymposium_procv1.pdf That looks very intriguing. :-D Thanks for your thorough explanations, Richard! --Pet

Re: [OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-11-02 Thread Richard Fish
Peter Gordon wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:34 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] In any case, xfs has a tool called 'xfs_fsr' Which means 'file system reorganizer'. It does def

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-11-01 Thread Harald Arnesen
Joshua Schmidlkofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a > backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] And if you do, make sure you have a good UPS. -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Dale
Peter Gordon wrote: > >For what it's worth, I've never had a *single* problem with Ext3, and >I've been using it with various distributions since I first started >playing with GNU/Linux a few weeks after Fedora Core 1 was released. > >--Peter > > I use reiserfs and have had no problems either.

[OT?] Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Gordon
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:34 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a > backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] In any case, xfs > has a tool called 'xfs_fsr' Which means 'file system reorganizer'. > It does defragmentation, and b

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 10/31/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rafael Fernández López wrote:>Hi,>>Well, I'd like to recover those holes (that 10% of the disk) and how to>do it, because I've tried with e2fsck with different options and read>"man e2fsck" with no possitive results. >>Thanks,>Rafael Fernández López.>>>T

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Dale
Rafael Fernández López wrote: >Hi, > >Well, I'd like to recover those holes (that 10% of the disk) and how to >do it, because I've tried with e2fsck with different options and read >"man e2fsck" with no possitive results. > >Thanks, >Rafael Fernández López. > > > There was a guru on the forums t

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Rafael Fernández López wrote: > ~ (more or less) the 10% of the filesystem is > non-contiguous. I suppose that the problem is that I've saved and > then deleted some files really big, and there's a hole. > > Well, I'd like to recover those holes (that 10% of the disk) There are no holes, the

[gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-10-31 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi, Each 20 times that my hard disk is mounted, my ext3 partition (is the only one that I have) gets checked for inconsistencies. On the last times that that task has been runned, it tells me that ~ (more or less) the 10% of the filesystem is non-contiguous. I suppose that the pro