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What is fpart ?

Fpart is a Filesystem partitioner. It helps you sort file trees and pack them into bags (called "partitions"). It is developed in C and available under the BSD license.

Fpsync, a powerful file-migration tool is also provided.

See the documentation for more details and examples.

Key features

Fpart

Blazing fast crawling!
Generates partitions on a number/file number/size basis
Provides a live mode with hooks to act immediately on generated file lists
Supports generating partitions from arbitrary input (e.g. du's output)

Fpsync

Parallelizes rsync(1), cpio(1), pax(1) or tar(1) jobs
Supports using a SSH cluster for efficient data migrations
Starts transfers while FS crawling still goes on
Supports remote target URLs when using rsync(1)
Parallelizes your final rsync(1) pass too!
Provides transfer runs' status/resume/replay
Nearly no dependencies (mostly shell and common tools)

Author / Licence

Fpart has been written by Ganael LAPLANCHE and is available under the BSD license (see COPYING for details).

Source code is hosted on :

Documentation is available on :

Fpart.org

Thanks to Jean-Baptiste Denis for having given me the idea of this program !

Third-party code

fts(3) code originally comes from FreeBSD :

lib/libc/gen/fts.c -> src/fts.c
include/fts.h      -> src/fts.h

It has been slightly modified for portability and is available under the BSD license.

Supporting fpart

If fpart (or fpsync) is useful to you or your organization, do not hesitate to contribute back! You can follow ideas in the TODO file or just fix a bug, any kind of help is always welcome!

You can also make a donation via Paypal:

or Github.

That will help me not running out of tea :)