From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Will I need to re-format my partition for using the compression
 plugin?
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:58:44 +0400
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Clemens Eisserer wrote:

>Hello again,
>
>I am currently re-installing my linux system and I would like to use
>reiser4 since I think its really powerful and great (and is well
>written too ;) ).
>
>However, will it be possible to convert a non-compressed reiser4
>partition to a compressed one withought the need of deleting data or
>reformat anything?
>
>Thanks, lg Clemens
>  
>

No need in such reformat actually. It may require special config options
to build the kernel, and maybe special mount option to mount your partition.

Edward.