Xenix filesystem fragmentation

[rdgreenall at lily.waterloo.edu]

In article <1989Oct20.205754.18669 at i88.isc.com> daveb at i88.isc.com (Dave Burton) writes:
>In article <160 at mdi386.UUCP> bruce at mdi386.UUCP (Bruce A. McIntyre) writes:
>|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)
>
>So will tar/mkfs/tar, and they're *included* with Xenix.
>-- 

But lets not forget, that wonderful feature/bug in XENIX tar where
it refuses to back up empty directories.  Use pdtar as long as
your filesystem is not longer than 1 tape instead.

			Richard Greenall