Akira Fujita merged a patch into 2.6.33 that adds a requirement that a file being defragged must be opened with read and write access, so e2fsprogs needs to satisfy that. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- a/misc/e4defrag.c +++ b/misc/e4defrag.c @@ -1605,7 +1605,7 @@ static int file_defrag(const char *file, const struct stat64 *buf, return 0; } - fd = open64(file, O_RDONLY); + fd = open64(file, O_RDWR); if (fd < 0) { if (mode_flag & DETAIL) { PRINT_FILE_NAME(file); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html