Thank you for the very clear explanation. Does there exist a utility to
immediately take a partition that has been growfs'd and fix it so that
it does not experience this performance penalty ?
That is, I am willing to sit and wait 10 minutes while some utility
rearranges and reorganizes the
Patrick Thomas wrote:
Thank you for the very clear explanation. Does there exist a utility to
immediately take a partition that has been growfs'd and fix it so that
it does not experience this performance penalty ?
That is, I am willing to sit and wait 10 minutes while some utility
I have a 500meg file that I dd'd and have mounted as a vn-device
filesystem. I would like to increase this to 1gig, however it is very
time consuming to do a dump of the FS to a file, dd a new larger one, then
do a restore (I have many special files in the FS, thus the need for
dump).
Is there
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 17:04, Patrick Thomas wrote:
Any suggestions on how to expand that file without doing the dump/restore
steps ?
man 8 growfs perchance? :)
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for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
The nice thing about standards is
Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 17:04, Patrick Thomas wrote:
Any suggestions on how to expand that file without doing the dump/restore
steps ?
man 8 growfs perchance? :)
You can unmount it, grow the underlying file with:
dd if-/dev/zero bs=XXX,count=XXX filename
What is the negative effect of this fragmentation, and does it mean I
won't be able to use all of the space that I added ?
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 17:04, Patrick Thomas wrote:
Any suggestions on how to expand that file
Patrick Thomas wrote:
What is the negative effect of this fragmentation, and does it mean I
won't be able to use all of the space that I added ?
Old disk:
[X X ][XX ][ XX ][X X][ XX]
New disk (initial state):
[X X ][XX ][ XX ][X X][ XX][][][][][]
New disk (after
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