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From: koerber.sin@sni.de (Mathias Koerber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Disk(FS) Reorganizer for UNIX?
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Date: 28 Jun 91 07:28:27 GMT
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I have fsanalyze, which analyzes a filesystem for file-fragmentation and
access times. I'd like to know

a)	Would it make the system faster when I reorganize the filesystem?
	Or is this irrelevant for UNIX filesystems?
	What about the filesystem types (BSD,SYSV, fast-fs)

b)	If so, what is the best way to reorganize?

	- backup using cpio, mkfs, reload?

	Or is there any program that does what PCTOOLS Compress does for
	MS-Doesn't disks?

	What ordering would be most beneficial?

		- Directories first, data files later
		- Directories together with data files
		- executables first (giving a list of the expected executable files)
		- anything else?

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