file fragmentation
Lyle Seaman
lws at comm.wang.com
Wed Mar 6 23:41:13 AEST 1991
woan at nowhere (Ronald S Woan) writes:
>In article <476 at bally.Bally.COM> siva at bally.Bally.COM (Siva Chelliah/50000) writes:
>>I have few questions :
>> 1 ) Is there a way to find out the fragmentation of a file system
>> (like the Norton utility for DOS)?
>I don't think so... Outside of some old UNIX/386 implementations, I
>don't really remember being able to do this with any UNIX file system
>(UFS perhaps? Certainly not BSD).
SunOS and RISC/os both report fragmentation from fsck. I don't know
about vanilla BSD.
>> 3) How to re-organize the file system ?
There was a program floating around the net called "packdisk" which did
this for XENIX. Shouldn't be too much trouble to make it work for other
SysV Unices. The general solution is: backup your filesystem, make
a new filsystem, restore the backup.
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