Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can resume after stopping.

From	Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can resume after stopping.
Date	2026-05-14 00:10 +0200
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On 5/13/26 2:13 PM, Javier Martinez wrote:
> Maybe you can try to move some big dirs to an external filesystem and
> move them back again, with a bit of luck if you have free space enough
> in your original filesystem kernel could assign more contigüous sectors
> reducing fragmentation

Well, right now, my plan is to just let it run.  It will finish, 
eventually.  Maybe nothing will happen that makes me have to stop it.  
If I do, oh well.  I'll just have to start it over again.  See how far I 
make it that time.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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[gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can resume  after stopping. Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> - 2026-05-13 00:50 +0200
  Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can  resume after stopping. Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net> - 2026-05-13 01:10 +0200
    Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can  resume after stopping. Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> - 2026-05-13 04:30 +0200
    Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can resume  after stopping. Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com> - 2026-05-13 12:50 +0200
    Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can  resume after stopping. Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> - 2026-05-13 13:40 +0200
        Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can resume  after stopping. Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com> - 2026-05-13 14:10 +0200
        Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can  resume after stopping. Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> - 2026-05-13 18:00 +0200
          Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can  resume after stopping. Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> - 2026-05-13 18:50 +0200
            Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can  resume after stopping. Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> - 2026-05-13 20:20 +0200
              Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can  resume after stopping. Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> - 2026-05-14 00:10 +0200
                  Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can resume  after stopping. Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com> - 2026-05-14 12:40 +0200
                [gentoo-user] Re: File system defragmentation. Something that can resume after stopping. Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com> - 2026-05-14 18:20 +0200
                  Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File system defragmentation. Something that can resume  after stopping. Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com> - 2026-05-14 19:40 +0200
                Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can  resume after stopping. Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> - 2026-05-14 19:10 +0200
                Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can  resume after stopping. Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> - 2026-05-15 21:40 +0200
                Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can  resume after stopping. Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> - 2026-05-17 23:30 +0200
                Re: [gentoo-user] File system defragmentation. Something that can  resume after stopping. Mitchell Dorrell <mwd@psc.edu> - 2026-05-14 19:50 +0200

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