Xenix filesystem fragmentation

Bruce A. McIntyre bruce at mdi386.UUCP
Wed Oct 18 09:21:37 AEST 1989


In article <359 at mplex.UUCP>, fff at mplex.UUCP (Fred Fierling) writes:
> Does anyone know of program that will defragment a Xenix filesystem?
> 
> Is it true that rm'ing all files in a filesystem and then restoring them
> will defragment a filesystem?
> -- 
> Fred Fierling   uunet!van-bc!mplex!fff    Tel: 604 875-1461   Fax: 604 875-9029
> Microplex Systems Ltd, 265 East 1st Avenue Vancouver, BC, V5T 1A7, Canada

While it is true that rm and restore from tape will unfrag a disk to a
large extent, the only way to do it correctly that I know of is with a
utility from the people that sell CTAR. (compressed tar)

Microlite Corporation
1021 Sutherland Street
Pittsburg, PA 15204
(412) 771-4901

By the way, CTAR is available for Unix/Xenix/Aix platforms.., and they also
have an inode fiddler for Xenix/SCO Unix
bruce
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