[X-Unix] Defragmenting?

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 2/18/04 8:54 PM, "James Bucanek" <subscriber at gloaming.com> wrote:

> 
> Unless I'm saddly mistaken, the locate database only contains the *names* of
> files.  Updating the locate database won't actually read any files -- only the
> directories.  [ While 'file' will read a file for magic cookies, the
> documentation for locate and locate.updatedb only talk about filenames, not
> types. ]

Good point. It seemed that periodic weekly was longer under Panther, and
that this could have been an answer...
> 
> On the other hand, you could run something like this:
> 
>   find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 cat > /dev/null
> 
> However, I suspect that there's probably a limit to how many files the OS will
> queue up for defragmentation at one time.

And to how long it would take as well. I don't think I want to try it, at
least not now. I'll try it on a partition with not too many files on it.

Thanks,
 
 
Kirk
 
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