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#1 2009-07-06 19:54:49

tjwoosta
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any way to fix non-contiguous space on ext3 filesystem?

I have some psx iso's on my arch partition and I was using Vista with Ext2 IFS to mount the ext3 partition and play the iso's with epsxe in Vista.  Vista crashed in the middle of my gaming session and I was forced to do a hard reboot. Everything seemed fine untill I booted into arch again, it ran a forced fsck and told me that I have 3.9% non-contiguous space now. 

I have done some searching around and learned that non-contigous basically means the space is fragmented, and 3.9% is nothing to really worry about. Just because its nothing to worry about doesnt mean I want it there though, so how can I fix this space?

In another thread I found two programs, one called defrag, and one called shake.  Has anybody ever used either of these apps for this perpose? Is this the best solution?

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#2 2009-07-06 20:01:41

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Re: any way to fix non-contiguous space on ext3 filesystem?

Never on an ext3 file system... ext4 is rumored to have live defrag in the near future, but until then, you're only option as I understand it is to copy the entire exr3 partition, nuke it, then copy the files back.  You can try using XFS which has a defrag util (offline) that I can tell you works great.


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#3 2009-07-06 20:13:45

Army
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Re: any way to fix non-contiguous space on ext3 filesystem?

What's the problem with 3,9% fragmentation?!?! That's pretty normal! Just continue running your system, there's nothing wrong with your filesystem!

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#4 2009-07-06 20:16:17

DevoidOfWindows
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Re: any way to fix non-contiguous space on ext3 filesystem?

$(yaourt -S shake)

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