Re: [arch] disk too fragmented - reiserfs

2006-04-18 Thread James Rayner
On 4/19/06, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tuesday 18 April 2006 21:00, RedShift wrote: > | Don't worry about it. Fragmentation doesn't really have any effect > | on linux filesystems. > > it horribly has... my reiser3 root-fs is horribly fragmented and > access times are very bad... i

Re: [arch] disk too fragmented - reiserfs

2006-04-18 Thread Damir Perisa
Tuesday 18 April 2006 23:27, Ryan Ply wrote: | The standard way to defragment in linux is to copy all your files | to a second drive, and then copy them back.   thank you... that was what i already have thaught about doing... that may be a valid workaround to the problem, if i would have enough

Re: [arch] disk too fragmented - reiserfs

2006-04-18 Thread Ryan Ply
Here's the deal. Somewhere someplace it has been written that "linux doesn't fragment". And everyone knows that. I have yet to see any real proof of this, I'd run my own tests, but funny thing, most of these file systems don't have a way to measure fragmentation. Why? They don't fragment.

[arch] disk too fragmented - reiserfs

2006-04-18 Thread Damir Perisa
Tuesday 18 April 2006 21:00, RedShift wrote: | Don't worry about it. Fragmentation doesn't really have any effect | on linux filesystems. it horribly has... my reiser3 root-fs is horribly fragmented and access times are very bad... if i copy a whole dir to a new place and move it back, it bec

Re: [arch] disk too fragmented

2006-04-18 Thread RedShift
Don't worry about it. Fragmentation doesn't really have any effect on linux filesystems. There are tools out there that can defragment your filesystem, but I wouldn't test them out on production data :-P I know, it takes a while to get used to not having to care about fragmentation anymore, but

Re: [arch] VSFTPD Stops working after update

2006-04-18 Thread Paul Hoy
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 23:49 -0400, Yonathan Dossow wrote: > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:42:54PM -0400, Paul Hoy wrote: > > I recently performed an update of arch and afterwards vsftp (and > > perhaps stopped working. I believe it's related to a module update of > > some kindt, but I can't recal

Re: [arch] Chinese characters in Konqueror

2006-04-18 Thread ajtiM
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 04:52, kozaki.dev wrote: > Le Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:09:38 +0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > I had the same. I install MS ttf fonts and in the konqueror-settings- > > fonts I choose for first one Sans Serif and Konqueror show now > > correct. I checked on www.debian.org

Re: [arch] disk too fragmented

2006-04-18 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I did su then 'touch /forcefsck'after I rebooted, it did a filesystem check and added the fragmentation data to the results on the screen.On 4/18/06, Jeffrey Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On 4/18/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> the last time I reboot 3 days ago, hda1 was 9% fragme

Re: [arch] Chinese characters in Konqueror

2006-04-18 Thread kozaki.dev
Le Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:09:38 +0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I had the same. I install MS ttf fonts and in the konqueror-settings- > fonts I choose for first one Sans Serif and Konqueror show now > correct. I checked on www.debian.org site. > That is not workin here. Tried www.163.com with

Re: [arch] disk too fragmented

2006-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Lim
On 4/18/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the last time I reboot 3 days ago, hda1 was 9% fragmented ( probably now even > more ) sorry to be asking this, but how can u tell that ur fs is 9% fragmented? I am not aware of a tool like that. Maybe u could enlighten me? -jf ___

Re: [arch] disk too fragmented

2006-04-18 Thread Johannes Held
Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > It's one year old. But it doesn't make any noise at all. I didn't describe > this as a problem. I was only asking it there existed a tool to defrag a ext3 > partition. Do you know of any? IMHO you don't have to defrag your ext3 partition. This kind of fragmentation is n