From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edward Shishkin Subject: Re: Will I need to re-format my partition for using the compression plugin? Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:12:16 +0400 Message-ID: <433034E0.9080904@namesys.com> References: <194f625505092006316ad200b5@mail.gmail.com> <43302F71.3040001@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <43302F71.3040001@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linuxhippy@gmail.com Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: >Hello > >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? >> >> >> > >reiser4 compression is based on a file. That means that when it will work you will be able to have new files compressed. >I guess there will be no way to compress existing files. Experts will correct me if I am wrong. > > > Precisely speaking the subject and message body contain different questions. The answer for the first one is no, and Vladimir answered to the second one correctly.