Re: How flexible can hard disk partitions be?

[david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)]

> You won't ever see a defragmenter for _all_ linux partitions, since
> there are so many different types. Conceivably one _could_ be done for
> EXT2FS.

Actually, there has been a defragmenter for extfs, ext2fs, minix and
xiafs for quite some time.  Check out
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/sbin/defrag-0.6.tar.gz.  It was
written by Stephen Tweedle, one of the ext2fs developers.  However,
it's well over a year old though, so I would check with the Stephen to
make sure it's still compatible before using it.

David
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