Richard Fish <bigfish <at> asmallpond.org> writes:
> For large files, I think xfs has a slight edge over reiserfs.
I've had several machine on 100% reiserfs and been very happy,
with the performance, and never had to recover, even when
an unexpected power loss occured. It was time I looked into
a new FS but, I do not see much performance gain over reiserfs,
except for reiser4, which is not recommend. Reiserfs has
been very, stable for the gentoo systems I manage.
> > I have a problem I thought I had solved. I have tried
> > Partition Magic 7.0, repartitioning on the experimental livecd for
> > amd64 and now the livecd from Gparted. All allow resizing of the
> > 85 Gig ntfs partition, but, when I go to commit(run). All three
> > fail. No matter what I do, I cannot reduce the 85Gig down to 30gig.
> If you look at the filesystem in a tool that will show you what files
> occupy which extents (like O&ODefrag), you can take a look at what
> (locked) files exist near the end of the filesystem. Things like
> c:\hiberfil.sys and c:\$log are nearly impossible to move, so they
> could be the source of the problem.
> If this is the case, you might have no choice but to reformat and
> reinstall XP if you want a smaller NTFS volume.
Well I did not get a XP-pro installation disk with this portable.
The portable has a second partition with XP on it, used for recovery.
This partition is located at the end of the drive.
They (HP) included instructions for recovery and reinstallation
for XP. 36 hours later, I'm getting pretty close to nuking the XP
and if I cannot restore XP from the disk, I will just purchase
XP-pro and install it on the new (reduced size) partition. Can I
reformat the drive make a smaller partition for XP and recover
XP from the the XP installation/recovery partition to a smaller
partition. say 30 Gig.Sound like a viable option?
Is there any free download software (even if it's a binary) to
defrag this ntfs partition, for an amd64 ? Googling for
{O&ODefrag +amd64 } does not produce anything useful.
James
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