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From: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Subject: Re: reiser4 status (correction)
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:45:34 -0500
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Andreas Sch=E4fer wrote:
> On 14:37 Fri 21 Jul     , Mike Benoit wrote:
>> No Linux file system that I'm aware of has a defragmentor, but they DO
>> become fragmented, just not near as bad as FAT32 used to when MS created
>> their defragmentor.
>=20
> Forgotten ext2? ;-) Funny thing: If your ext3 got too fragmented:
> convert it back to ext2, defrag and reconvert it again to ext3. All of
> this can be done "in place", i.e. without moving the data to other
> partitions etc.

Well, I know an ext3 partition can be mounted, unchanged, as ext2.  Of=20
course, you had to cleanly unmount as ext3 first, and make sure you=20
cleanly mount/unmount as ext2 before you try to mount as ext3 again...

Question, then:  Can the ext2 defrag work on a raw ext3 partition,=20
without having to convert it first?