[Nottingham] File copying filesystem -> filesystem

[Martin Garton]

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 17:15 +0100, Martin wrote:
> Rory Holland wrote:
> > Why not copy your entire home directory onto an external drive and reinstall?
> > That way you get the benefits of reinstallation
> 
> And that's the question... How best to do that such that the files are 
> optimally arranged onto the new disk (partitions).

You don't need to worry too much, ext4 does a good job for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4#Delayed_allocation


-- 
Martin.