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A full fsck should not destroy a filesystem. I heard that fsck on ext3 is nasty. Reiser too? Seesh... those filesystems are broken and I would not use them until they work correctly. Veritas filesystems are journalled and extent-based. I have run a full fsck on many Veritas filesystems. There is nothing about journalled or extent-based filesystems that makes them inherently non-repairable. However, fsck does not defrag them, it only repairs damage.
The Veritas defrag tool is for the Veritas filesystem, not the Veritas volume manager. The Veritas filesystem and the Veritas Volume Manager are two different things and it is possible to use one without using the other. Using a volume manager in a clueless manner could indeed cause a form of fragmentation, but the defrag tool won't help that. The Windows/DOS FAT filesystem family can fragment and then benefit from defraging. Linux supports FAT and a lot of us use FAT filesystems on multiboot systems to share files between Windows and Linux. I have always booted back to Windows to defrag a FAT filesystem. I don't know if Linux has a FAT defrag tool. I don't know of one offhand, but I have never really looked. |
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I have (deliberately) done this on ext3 and reiser(can't remember which one ) and ended up with nothing good afterwards. I certainly would recommend not using them for now for this reason. |
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