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...tware-raids in the bottom and then merged together using lvm. I was running ext3 but removed the journal flag with thor:~# tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/vgraid/data After that I fsckd just to be sure I wouldnt meet any unexpected problems. So now it was time to defrag, I used this command: thor:~# e2defrag -r /dev/vgraid/data After about 15 seconds (after it ate all my 1.5G of RAM) I got this answer: e2defrag (/dev/vgraid/data): Unable to allocate buffer for inode priorities I am using Debian unstable and here is the version information from e2defrag: thor:~# e2defrag -V e2defrag 0.73pjm1 RCS versi...

I have made some more research and found out the following .. thor:~# df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on -[cut]- /dev/mapper/vgraid-data 475987968 227652 475760316 1% /data thor:~# strace e2defrag -r /dev/vgraid/data -[cut]- mmap2(NULL, 1903955968, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x46512000 (delay 15 seconds while allocating memory) mmap2(NULL, 475992064, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) -[cut]- The firs...

...ople in everywhere). The result was the system did not mount de root (/) partition and the boot process was stopped. I repair it easily: boot from LiveCD (Knoppix in my case), umount root partition and pass the e2fsck utility. Because of that I've used several fs tools and my surprise was the e2defrag utility. Until the present day I think the ext2/3 fs has not defrag problem. But I've used defrag tools in root partition because it was really fragmented. ?What do you know about this kind of "trouble"? I supose the fragmentation is ext2/3 fs is lesser problem than in Win fs (FAT32...

...y additional file entries can be stored before needing another expansion? (6) Say I have a directory containing some files, then I delete some files, and finally I start adding files. Will new file entries use empty or vacated directory slots before expanding the directory? (7) I am aware of e2defrag (latest version I have found is 0.73). Does this program (or any other any tool) perform any directory optimization that would affect this problem? (8) If e2defrag would be helpful, has it/is it being brought forward to operate correctly with current (RH 8/9) systems? I see some warnings about...

Hello everybody, reading about the speed improvements possible with (on boot) preloaded files (which should be continuous on disk) I searched for a ext3 defrag program. I found an ext2 defrag program (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/defrag-0.70.tar.gz, available in debian as defrag) which would have an optimal feature (moving files by a list) but refuses to work on ext3.

...2] partitions (raw works) is (regardless of client OS, for Windows defragment is first used followed by resizing the partitions in Disk Management then finally Sysinternals' sdelete to zero disk space - I have used this process and it works but with surprises): defragment (even Linux, look into e2defrag, shake, a defrag script or e4defrag - can be found on the web, haven't used them, YMMV), zero disk space, resize the partition, then use qemu-img to convert to raw (or even qcow - it works). However, to permanently resize you must convert to raw, shrink and re-convert to qcow2 if you want thos...

Hi! I was really stupid! I have defragmented my ext3 partition with e2defrag, altought i have done that many times in debian without problems on my new gentoo installation it had bad results. When i wanted to boot this partition i got serious e2fsck errors. It has reported that (only) inode 8 has illegal blocks, so i have run e2fsck -fy /dev/hda2, which has cleared the ille...

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 08:28:49AM -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote: > I realize this is wandering off-topic but, if you have found Debian commands, you're doing better than me. What are they? Also, are you allowing dd to totally fill the partition (what I have found on the web as a recommendation)? If so, is the OS surviving acceptably? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From:

...2] partitions (raw works) is (regardless of client OS, for Windows defragment is first used followed by resizing the partitions in Disk Management then finally Sysinternals' sdelete to zero disk space - I have used this process and it works but with surprises): defragment (even Linux, look into e2defrag, shake, a defrag script or e4defrag - can be found on the web, haven't used them, YMMV), zero disk space, resize the partition, then use qemu-img to convert to raw (or even qcow - it works). However, to permanently resize you must convert to raw, shrink and re-convert to qcow2 if you want thos...