SHAKE(8)                System Administration Utilities               SHAKE(8)

NAME
       Shake - Rewrite fragmented files, maybe improving performance.

SYNOPSIS
       shake [OPTION]... [FILE|DIRECTORY]...

DESCRIPTION
       Rewrite fragmented or misplaced files, maybe improving performance.
       Reads file list from standard input if there is no files in the
       arguments.  You have to mount your partition with the user_xattr
       option.

       -c, --max-crumbc
              max number of crumbs

       -C, --max-fragc
              max number of fragments

       -d, --max-deviance
              max distance between file start and it's ideal position

       -h, --help
              you're looking at me !

       -L, --no-locks
              don't put a lock on written files

       -m, --many-fs
              shake subdirectories that are on different filesystems

       -n, --new
              age of "new" files, which will be shak()ed

       -o, --old
              age of "old" files, which won't be shak()ed

       -p, --pretend
              don't alter files

       -r, --crumbratio
              ratio of the file under which a fragment is a crumb

       -s, --smallsize
              the size under which a file is considered small

       -S, --bigsize
              the size under which a file is considered big

       -t, --small-tolerance multiply crumbratio and divide maxfnumber of
              small files

       -T, --big-tolerance
              multiply crumbratio and divide maxfnumber of big files

       -v, --verbose
              increase the verbosity level

       -V, --version
              show version number and copyright

       -X, --no-xattr
              disable usage of xattr

USAGE
       If there is no FILES shake read from stdin.

       Please refer to http://vleu.net/shake/ for detailed instructions.

EXAMPLES
       See fragmention of a file :
              shake --pretend --verbose --verbose FILE

       Shake all file in a dir, recursively :
              shake --old=0 DIR

       Shake all mp3 in subdirectory, puting together those close in lexical
       order :
              find -iname '*.mp3' | sort | shake

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <brice.arnould+shake@gmail.com> or at
       https://github.com/unbrice/shake/issues

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Brice Arnould.  Permission is granted to copy,
       distribute and/or modify documentation under the terms of the GNU Free
       Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by
       the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-
       Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is
       included in the file FDL.txt .

       Copyright (C) 2006-2011 Brice Arnould.  Shake comes with ABSOLUTELY NO
       WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of Shake under the terms of the
       GNU General Public License version or greater.  For more information
       about these matters, see the file named GPL.txt.

Shake 1.0                          July 2020                          SHAKE(8)