On 2/12/23 12:14 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > what's wrong with e4defrag that it pretends it reduced th efragments of a file to 1 while in the next "e4defrag -c" (why does that only list 5 files at all) the same file is listed again with the same old frag count? You might want to examine the actual allocation before and after with "filefrag -v" which could offer some clues to whether anything was modified by e4defrag. (I would also suggest that there is no need to defragment a 3-extent 2 megabyte file, in general.) -Eric > ---------------------------- > > [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ e4defrag -c /mnt/data/audio/ > e4defrag 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021) > <Fragmented files> now/best size/ext > 1. /mnt/data/audio/Smokie/Solid Ground/Smokie - Little Town Flirt.mp3 > 3/1 2389 KB > 2. /mnt/data/audio/Ace Frehley/Second Sighting/Ace Frehley - Fallen Angel.mp3 > 3/1 2389 KB > 3. /mnt/data/audio/Mr. Big/Defying Gravity/Mr. Big - Mean To Me.mp3 > 3/1 2389 KB > 4. /mnt/data/audio/Juice Newton/Quiet Lies/Juice Newton - Im Gonna Be Strong.mp3 > 3/1 2389 KB > 5. /mnt/data/audio/Vicious Rumors/Something Burning/Vicious Rumors - Ballhog.mp3 > 3/1 2389 KB > > ---------------------------- > > [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ e4defrag "/mnt/data/audio/Smokie/Solid Ground/Smokie - Little Town Flirt.mp3" > e4defrag 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021) > ext4 defragmentation for /mnt/data/audio/Smokie/Solid Ground/Smokie - Little Town Flirt.mp3 > [1/1]/mnt/data/audio/Smokie/Solid Ground/Smokie - Little Town Flirt.mp3: 100% [ OK ] > Success: [1/1] > > ---------------------------- > > [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ e4defrag -c /mnt/data/audio/ > e4defrag 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021) > <Fragmented files> now/best size/ext > 1. /mnt/data/audio/Smokie/Solid Ground/Smokie - Little Town Flirt.mp3 > 3/1 2389 KB > 2. /mnt/data/audio/Ace Frehley/Second Sighting/Ace Frehley - Fallen Angel.mp3 > 3/1 2389 KB > 3. /mnt/data/audio/Mr. Big/Defying Gravity/Mr. Big - Mean To Me.mp3 > 3/1 2389 KB > 4. /mnt/data/audio/Juice Newton/Quiet Lies/Juice Newton - Im Gonna Be Strong.mp3 > 3/1 2389 KB > 5. /mnt/data/audio/Vicious Rumors/Something Burning/Vicious Rumors - Ballhog.mp3 > 3/1 2389 KB >
