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-.TH E2FREEFRAG 8
+.TH E2FREEFRAG 8 "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@"
.SH NAME
e2freefrag \- report free space fragmentation information
.SH SYNOPSIS
program will scan the block bitmap information to check how many free blocks
are present as contiguous and aligned free space. The percentage of contiguous
free blocks of size and of alignment
-.IR chunk_kb
+.I chunk_kb
is reported. It also displays the minimum/maximum/average free chunk size in
the filesystem, along with a histogram of all free chunks. This information
can be used to gauge the level of free space fragmentation in the filesystem.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-c " chunk_kb"
-Desired size of chunk. It is specified in units of kilobytes (KB). If no
+If a chunk size is specified, then
+.B e2freefrag
+will print how many free chunks of size
.I chunk_kb
-is specified on the command line, then the default value is 1024KB.
+are available in units of kilobytes (Kb). The chunk size must be a
+power of two and be larger than filesystem block size.
.TP
-.BI \-h
+.B \-h
Print the usage of the program.
.SH EXAMPLE
# e2freefrag /dev/vgroot/lvhome
.br
Blocksize: 4096 bytes
.br
-Total blocks: 5120710
-.br
-Free blocks: 831744 (16.2%)
-.br
-Chunk size: 1048576 bytes (256 blocks)
-.br
-Total chunks: 20003
+Total blocks: 1504085
.br
-Free chunks: 2174 (10.9%)
+Free blocks: 292995 (19.5%)
.br
-Min free chunk: 4 KB
+Min. free extent: 4 KB
.br
-Max free chunk: 24576 KB
+Max. free extent: 24008 KB
.br
-Avg. free chunk: 340 KB
+Avg. free extent: 252 KB
.br
-HISTOGRAM OF FREE CHUNK SIZES:
+HISTOGRAM OF FREE EXTENT SIZES:
.br
- Range Free chunks
+Extent Size Range : Free extents Free Blocks Percent
.br
- 4K... 8K- : 2824
+ 4K... 8K- : 704 704 0.2%
.br
- 8K... 16K- : 1760
+ 8K... 16K- : 810 1979 0.7%
.br
- 16K... 32K- : 1857
+ 16K... 32K- : 843 4467 1.5%
.br
- 32K... 64K- : 1003
+ 32K... 64K- : 579 6263 2.1%
.br
- 64K... 128K- : 616
+ 64K... 128K- : 493 11067 3.8%
.br
- 128K... 256K- : 479
+ 128K... 256K- : 394 18097 6.2%
.br
- 256K... 512K- : 302
+ 256K... 512K- : 281 25477 8.7%
.br
- 512K... 1024K- : 238
+ 512K... 1024K- : 253 44914 15.3%
.br
- 1M... 2M- : 213
+ 1M... 2M- : 143 51897 17.7%
.br
- 2M... 4M- : 173
+ 2M... 4M- : 73 50683 17.3%
.br
- 4M... 8M- : 287
+ 4M... 8M- : 37 52417 17.9%
.br
- 8M... 16M- : 4
+ 8M... 16M- : 7 19028 6.5%
.br
- 16M... 32M- : 1
+ 16M... 32M- : 1 6002 2.0%
.SH AUTHOR
This version of e2freefrag was written by Rupesh Thakare, and modified by
Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>, and Kalpak Shah.