shake(8) - Linux man page

Name

Shake - Rewrite fragmented files, maybe improving performance.

Synopsis

shake [OPTION]... [FILE|DIRECTORY]...

Description

Rewrite fragmented files, maybe improving performance (defragmenter). Read from standard input if there is no files in argv. You have to mount your partition with user_xattr option.

-c, --max-crumbc: max number of crumbs
-C, --max-fragc: max number of fragments
-d, --max-deviance: max distance between file start and it's ideal position
-h, --help: you're looking at me !
-L, --no-locks: don't put a lock on written files
-m, --many-fs: shake subdirectories that are on different filesystems
-n, --new: age of "new" files, which will be shak()ed
-o, --old: age of "old" files, which won't be shak()ed
-p, --pretend: don't alter files
-r, --crumbratio: ratio of the file under which a fragment is a crumb
-s, --smallsize: the size under which a file is considered small
-S, --bigsize: the size under which a file is considered big
-t, --small-tolerance multiply crumbratio and divide maxfnumber of small files
-T, --big-tolerance: multiply crumbratio and divide maxfnumber of big files
-v, --verbose: increase the verbosity level -V, --version show version number and copyright
-X, --no-xattr: disable usage of xattr

Examples

See fragmention of a file :: shake --pretend --verbose --verbose FILE
Shake all file in a dir, recursively :: shake --old=0 DIR
Shake all mp3 in subdirectory, puting together those close in lexical order :: find -iname '*.mp3' | sort | shake

Usage

If there is no FILES shake read from stdin.

Please refer to http://vleu.net/shake/ for detailed instructions.

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to <brice.arnould+shake@gmail.com>

Copyright

Copyright © 2006 Brice Arnould. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify documentation under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the file FDL.txt .

Copyright © 2006 Brice Arnould. Shake comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of Shake under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named GPL.txt.