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From: "Wayne linuxtwo on 3 Feb 2010 11:10 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I'm unable to identify which package contains e2defrag. Please advise. > Stan It looks like there 'was' such a package but I have not heard that phrase in a few years. <http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2004/05/msg00299.html> Sorry Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Camaleón on 3 Feb 2010 11:10 On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:18:35 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I'm unable to identify which package contains e2defrag. Please advise. Seems it was removed: e2defrag - Unable to allocate buffer for inode priorities http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=396449 RM: defrag -- RoM; orphaned upstream and out of sync with common ext2/3 features http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446691 Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Stan Hoeppner on 3 Feb 2010 12:10 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 2/3/2010 9:29 AM: > No such file in stable, backports, testing, unstable, or experimental. > > I've never heard of such a utility, either. I think I found what happened to it: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-December/030918.html > It should be noted that fragmentation is less of an issue on ext2/3/4 file > systems than on vfat file systems. Its fragmentation performance in relation to vfat is irrelevant. Read the works of the folks at MIT who wrote EXT2. It *will* fragment over time, just not quite as bad as some other "modern" filesystems. The worst fragmentation scenario is appending large files over time. And guess what I have stored on one of my EXT2 filesystems? Yes, you guessed it, mbox files. I keep all my mail, all list mail, including debian-user, in mbox files (dovecot). They're only a combined 200MB at this point, but they will only continue to grow, and continue to become more fragmented. Thus, I started looking for a defrag tool for EXT2. It appears that Debian removed it from the distro for fear that ppl would use it on EXT3/4 filesystems and corrupt them as e2defrag only works on EXT2. It's apparently not been updated to work with the journals and other data structures of EXT3/4. Luckily I've got a dedicated /home partition where these mbox files are stored. So worst case scenario I can just create a new XFS partition in my unallocated space and move everything over. XFS has a non-destructive online defragger, and it's a superior filesystem to EXT2/3/4, Resiser, and JFS anyway. ;) Matter of fact XFS has some really nice management tools, light years ahead of EXT2/3/4 and Reiser. I love having so many good choices available to solve a (potential) problem. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: David Baron on 3 Feb 2010 12:20 > >I'm unable to identify which package contains e2defrag. Please advise. > > bss(a)monster:~% apt-file search e2defrag > bss(a)monster:~% > > No such file in stable, backports, testing, unstable, or experimental. > > I've never heard of such a utility, either. > > It should be noted that fragmentation is less of an issue on ext2/3/4 file > systems than on vfat file systems. > I certainly have a /usr/sbin/e2defrag. 1. Do not use on mounted/writable fs. 2. Man says if it fails, you are up the creek. 3. In other words, best to forget this one :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on 3 Feb 2010 12:20
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 11:03:18 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > XFS has a non-destructive > online defragger, and it's a superior filesystem to EXT2/3/4, Resiser, and > JFS anyway. ;) Matter of fact XFS has some really nice management tools, > light years ahead of EXT2/3/4 and Reiser. Can you shrink XFS at all yet? If not, it's a non-starter for me. I'll have to wait for BTrFS. Otherwise, I'll start migration now-ish. I really need to get off ReiserFS before it completely bit-rots. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss(a)iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ |