In another thread Re: shrinking reiserfs partitions, filesystems Roberto Ragusa responded
Do not forget another option: copy everything somewhere else (external USB drive or something...), destroy the partition, recreate it smaller, format and copy back. In this way you get an implicit perfect defrag of your data,<<<<<<<<<< which could be more or less useful, depending on the current fragmentation of your filesystem. ----- my question: isn't it true that use of 'mv' is much faster than 'cp' or rsync? ie to "copy everything somewhere else" instead "mv everything somewhere else" and instead of "..and copy back" do ".. mv back" Are there gotchas using 'mv' instead of the various copy tools? more fragmentation perhaps? I made one test case here to test mv I first made a copy of /lib to /libfc5copy and then tested mv on the latter to move it to my external usb mv libfc5copy /media/disk-1/mvlibfc5copy this seemed to complete in only a second or two. Of course this is only useful if you want to erase the original. thanks for any advice Jack
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