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Fragmentation and ext4

Suppose I have a sparse file F on a Linux ext4 filesystem, and process P1 is writing to a disjoint 50% subset of F while P2 writes to the other 50% of F. I would like to minimize fragmentation while ...

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How to make ext4 filesystem sparse?

I am using Linux as guest OS in VirtualBox. I deleted huge number of files from its filesystem. Now i want to shrink the filesystem image file (vdi). The shrinking works by compressing filesystem ...

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