[vox-tech] Defrag of Shared drive

[Alex Mandel]

Mark K. Kim wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:29:05PM -0800, jim stockford wrote:
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>>how about something like this:
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>>cd <mount_point_dir_of_data_partition>
>>cp -R * <mount_point_dir_of_empty_partition>
>>sleep 1
>>rm -Rf *
>>sleep 1
>>cp -R <mount_point_dir_of_empty_partition>/* .
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>You're gonna lose the "System" file attribute if you do this from Linux
>on a FAT partition.  This is critical for certain files; I think the
>Windows swap file is one of them.  You'll also lose the "Archive" file
>attribute, only important (though not critical) if you do incremental
>backup using software that utilizes the attribute bit.  Otherwise I
>think this technique is safe to do on a partition without such files.
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>-Mark
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Just to point out to everyone, this is a data only drive no Win OS files 
on it, that stuffs all safely tucked into a separate NTFS partition.
On that note, this idea isn't really practicle for a 100GB partition.

Alex

Alex