GDAVL(8)

NAME
gdavl - GUI disk allocation viewer

SYNOPSIS
gdavl [ -bhs ] [ -S n ] [ devname [ path ] ] gdavl [ -b ] [ -S n ] [ -d file-before file-after ] gdavl [ -S n ] [ -a interval file-1 file-2 [ file-3 ... ] ]

DESCRIPTION
gdavl checks the fragmentation of a ext2 or a ext3 filesystem and displays the check result on GTK-GUI window. It works whether filesystem is mounted or unmounted, and available for a directory or a file.

devname is the device file where the filesystem is stored (e.g. /dev/hda1).

path is the directory or file which would be checked (e.g. /lost+found). The first character / is required.

In addition, gdavl can also displays the difference of two cdavl output files.

OPTIONS

-b  Auto execution (for batch job).

-h  Show the usage.

-s  When the filesystem of devname is mounted, gdavl will automatically use the davl_liveinfo kernel module. This option force that gdavl not use the davl_liveinfo module. See cdavl(8) for details about the davl_liveinfo module.

-S  Summarizing blocks setting. Displaying 2^n blocks as one block.

-d  Display the difference between two cdavl output files.

-a  Display the animation of two or more cdavl output files. Interval is the update seconds.

AUTHORS
Yumiko Sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@hitachi.com>,
Satoshi Fujiwara <sa-fuji@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>

AVAILABILITY
gdavl is a part of the davl and is available from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/davl

SEE ALSO
cdavl(8)