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From: Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] tunefs -m 5%
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 08:01:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <692ad732-6abb-2035-430b-038b728f37f6@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25189.1614937832@hop.toad.com>

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On 3/5/21 2:50 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
> And there were no built-in "defragmentation" programs that could 
> easily fix that.

Sure there are!

Depending on how you look at things and if you have the file systems to 
do it....

The venerable trick of temporarily moving everything to another file 
system, thereby vacating the source file system as much as possible, 
before moving files back.  }:-)

Is it pretty?  No.
Is it fast?  No.
Does it work?  It's better than nothing.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die


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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-05 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-04 16:52 [TUHS] tabs vs spaces - entab, detab Will Senn
2021-03-04 16:59 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-04 18:31   ` arnold
2021-03-04 19:23     ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-03-04 19:37       ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-04 19:50         ` Rob Pike
2021-03-04 21:20           ` Robert Clausecker
2021-03-04 21:25           ` Will Senn
2021-03-05  9:58             ` John Gilmore
2021-03-06 21:31               ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 21:38                 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-06 22:05                   ` Clem Cole
2021-03-15  3:02                     ` John Cowan
2021-03-15 18:15                       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-15 21:19                         ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-15 23:47                           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-16  3:10                             ` Earl Baugh
2021-03-15 21:08                       ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-15 21:12                         ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-15 21:24                           ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-15 22:06                             ` Adam Thornton
2021-03-16 13:25                             ` arnold
2021-03-17  5:10                       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-06 21:40                 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-04 18:48   ` emanuel stiebler
2021-03-05  0:44     ` John Cowan
2021-03-05  0:55       ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-05  1:09         ` George Michaelson
2021-03-05  1:21           ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-05  1:29             ` Richard Salz
2021-03-04 18:33 ` John P. Linderman
2021-03-04 21:24 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-04 21:27   ` Will Senn
2021-03-04 21:29     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-04 21:42       ` Will Senn
2021-03-04 21:48       ` John P. Linderman
2021-03-04 22:08         ` Andy Kosela
2021-03-04 22:12           ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-05 14:13             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-05 20:24               ` John Cowan
2021-03-05 21:51                 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-06 23:43                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-05  0:15           ` Jon Steinhart
2021-03-06 21:22           ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 23:58             ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-07  0:03               ` Jon Steinhart
2021-03-07  0:25               ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-07  9:16               ` Brantley Coile
2021-03-05  9:50         ` [TUHS] tunefs -m 5% John Gilmore
2021-03-05 15:01           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS [this message]
2021-03-05 15:32           ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-03-06  1:18             ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-06  1:52               ` Warner Losh
2021-03-06 21:45                 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 22:03                   ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-09  4:59                     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-06 23:52                   ` David Barto
2021-03-06  1:16           ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-04 22:10     ` [TUHS] tabs vs spaces - entab, detab Greg A. Woods
2021-03-05  1:41 ` alan
2021-03-05  1:55 ` alan
2021-03-05  2:06   ` Will Senn
2021-03-05 17:08     ` Clem Cole
2021-03-05 17:19       ` Richard Salz
2021-03-05 19:39         ` Lawrence Stewart
2021-03-05 19:51           ` Dan Halbert
2021-03-08  1:52       ` Will Senn
2021-03-05 16:43 ` Scot Jenkins via TUHS
2021-03-05 22:23   ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-06 20:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 21:01   ` Jon Steinhart
2021-03-06 21:19     ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-06 22:01       ` Clem Cole

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