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From: jay@ncspm.ncsu.edu (Jay C. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re^2: Earthmen are sooo clever
Message-ID: <1788@ncsp24Aug198920:30:10GMT
Date: 21 Aug 89 17:28:58 GMT
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From article <5176@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, by cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth):
> On some systems, such as SCO Xenix, an approach such as the following
> has the effect of defragmenting file systems.
> (a)	backup up the file system you want to defragment (or at least
> major directory trees in that system);
> (b) verify the backup;
> (c) remove the backed up files;
> (d) fsck -s
> (e) restore from the back up.

A faster alternative to steps c and d is mkfs.  This will have the effect
of removing all files and rebuilding the free list and it runs a lot
faster than "rm -fr *" fo