About

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.

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) or tar(1) jobs using fpart(1)
• Supports using a SSH cluster for efficient/distributed data migration
• Starts transfers while FS crawling still goes on
• Supports remote target URLs when using rsync(1)
• Parallelizes your final rsync(1) (--delete) pass too!
• Provides transfer runs' status/resume/replay
• Nearly no dependencies (mostly shell and common tools)
• Lower memory footprint (than raw tools)

Compatibility

Fpart is primarily developed on FreeBSD.

It has been successfully tested on :

• FreeBSD 13, 14 (i386, amd64)
• GNU/Linux (x86_64, arm)
• Solaris 9, 10 (Sparc, i386)
• OpenIndiana (i386)
• NetBSD 9.3 (amd64)
• Mac OS X 10.6, 10.8, 11.2 (x86_64, arm64)

and passed Coverity Scan tests with success.

Installing from a package

Packages are already available for many operating systems :

• FreeBSD
• Debian
• Ubuntu
• CentOS/Fedora
• NixOS
• MacOS (Homebrew)
• Spack

so you can use your favourite package manager to get ready.

Installing from source

If a pre-compiled package is not available for your favourite operating system, installing from sources is simple. First, get the source files :

$ git clone https://github.com/martymac/fpart.git
$ cd fpart

Then, if there is no 'configure' script in the main directory, run :

$ autoreconf -i

(autoreconf comes from the GNU autotools), then run :

$ ./configure
$ make

to configure and build fpart.

Finally, install fpart (as root) :

# make install

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 :

• Martymac.org
• Github
• Sourceforge

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 :)

Fpart supporters

• Apple OSX support is eased by MacStadium's Open Source Developer Program, big thanks to them!
• Many thanks to HPE for providing me the successor of my old server! That's what I call OSS support :)

• Last but not least, big thanks to my beloved wife and daughters for their invaluable support and more particularly for the discussion we had about fpart logo :)