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-r::::
defragment files recursively in given directories
-f::::
-flush data for each file before going to the next file. This will limit the amount
-of dirty data to current file, otherwise the amount cumulates from several files
-and may increase system load.
+flush data for each file before going to the next file.
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+This will limit the amount of dirty data to current file, otherwise the amount
+cumulates from several files and will increase system load. This can also lead
+to ENOSPC if there's too much dirty data to write and it's not possible to make
+the reservations for the new data (ie. how the COW design works).
++
-s <start>[kKmMgGtTpPeE]::::
defragmentation will start from the given offset, default is beginning of a file
-l <len>[kKmMgGtTpPeE]::::
defragment only up to 'len' bytes, default is the file size
-t <size>[kKmMgGtTpPeE]::::
-target extent size, do not touch extents bigger than 'size'
+target extent size, do not touch extents bigger than 'size', default: 32M
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+The value is only advisory and the final size of the extents may differ,
+depending on the state of the free space and fragmentation or other internal
+logic. Reasonable values are from tens to hundreds of megabytes.
*du* [options] <path> [<path>..]::
Calculate disk usage of the target files using FIEMAP. For individual