Matthias Schniedermeyer writes:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:21:11PM +0200, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > > [green@namesys.com]
> > >
[...]
>
> That answers the question that poped up in my mind.
>
> "How does the tool know where the blocks are, and in which order it can
> 'move' then without corrupting the data.(*)
There is FIBMAP ioctl for this.
>
> Seems it doesn't know it.
>
> But it is possibel(*2) to do what the programm wants to do, you only
> have to find out the order in which you have to copy the blocks to
> prevent garbage. That's all the magic.
>
Nikita.
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