-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Phillip Susi schrieb: > I am looking for a way to defragment the disk such that the files needed > for boot are all packed sequentially at the beginning of the disk, so > that readahead-list can read them in much faster. i've never used ext2fs defrag-programs so i don't know how "safe" they are. but if they're working on ext2 - why not tune2fs' an existing ext3 into a ext2, run the defrag program and tune2fs' into ext3 again: % umount /dev/sdX % tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sdX % <run magic defrag program on sdX> % tune2fs -O has_journal /dev/sdX % mount /dev/sdX obviously this has to be done while the device is offline and i'd recommend having backups of course. i've never tried it though... - -- BOFH excuse #86: Runt packets -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDpFxeC/PVm5+NVoYRA4yYAKC8q6yKJHWaO54bq/97j6P8n4+GtgCfXE0O lmTPqGcJINRW0zNjaxYdpOI= =iFbD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
