Tag Archives: ext3

Check fragmentation levels on EXT3 files

During time, even Linux systems suffer from file fragmentation. To check the file fragmentation level of a certain file use filefrag -v filename

List EXT3 volume names in Linux

If you have multiple Linux partitions and want to find out the name of a certain one, you can use findfs for the task: $ /sbin/findfs LABEL=/ /dev/hda1 The findfs binary is in the e2fsprogs package.