Andreas Schäfer 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.
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
course, you had to cleanly unmount as ext3 first, and make sure you
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,
without having to convert it first?
