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If you have gnome-system-monitor installed, you can use that to see what file system is used for each partition.
To switch ext2 to ext3 you can use "tune2fs -j"
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No, modifing fstab will not do it. I think you can change it to ext2 but not sure how it will handle the journaling potion of ext3.
Ext2 does not fragment like a fat32 partition does.
Check out www.google.com and type ' linux ext defrag '. Lots of links on that. You can also do the same for ' convert ext3 to ext2 ' as well. I use google quite extensively for help like this.
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