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[ILUG] Non-Contiguous space

[ILUG] Non-Contiguous space

Rob Hill robhill at indigo.ie
Tue Oct 26 10:18:33 IST 1999


> > Anybody know of a utility which will sort this out for me?
> 
> Check out the Partition mini Howto.
> 
> In there it says something to the effect....
> 
> "... there is a tool to fix disk fragmentation but it is so old it
> is out of step with the ext2 file system and nobody ever used
> it anyway..."
> 


all you have to do is to tar up everything,
delete the original files, and untar it right back onto
the disk - that'll fix it -
oh - and be sure to read the man page for tar etc, - get
the permissions right......

Disclaimer - the usual.......

rob




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