More on file fragmentation, torrents, etc.....

[shmuel siegel]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 10:15, Tom Mitchell wrote:

> If it is really slowing you down, you should be able to clean it up by
> stopping the torrent making a copy and remove the downloaded file with
> all the insane extents, then rename the copied files  back as they
> were and then restart torrent.
> 
>   Something like:
>      mv FC2-test3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.is foo
>      cp foo FC2-test3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso
>      rm foo
>   or better yet:
>      cp FC2-test3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.is foo
>      filefrag FC2-test3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.is foo
>      # pick the best and give it the name you and torrent expect.
> 
> It might take a couple of copy and move cycles of these big old files
> for the filesystem to tidy things up... much will depend on how full
> the FS is and what else is going on.
> 
Is there no more direct way to defrag a file. Some automatic tool.
e2fsck reports that by /boot partition has 20% fragmentation. I would
like to clean that up without using such an error prone procedure as
copying and renaming files