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#326 e4defrag does not defrag directories themselves

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nobody
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2012-11-28
2012-10-28
Anonymous
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Hi,

on my Debian system where many packages are installed, the /var/lib/dpkg/info/ directory is quite big:

$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/ |wc
58183 523640 3812873

It is also very fragmented:

$ filefrag /var/lib/dpkg/info/
/var/lib/dpkg/info/: 222 extents found

So I tried to defrag it with e4defrag. Unfortunately I could only defrag files inside /var/lib/dpkg/info/ and /var/lib/dpkg/, but not /var/lib/dpkg/info itself.

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