Fedora :: Writing To NTFS Causes Fragmentation / Solve This?
Aug 26, 2010
For some reason when i write a file to my NTFS-partitioned external HDD the files seem to get severely partitioned. This only happens when writing to it from within Fedora.
Windows Vista doesn't seem to do this.
This image is a screenshot from MyDefrag.
On my other hard drive i have a 7GB file consisting of 1400 fragments.
i'm guessing this is too much fragmented, because it was a completely empty hard drive before it wrote the file.
What could have caused this please? and how can i solve this?
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Are there risks of data loss when writing on a NTFS using ntfs-3g, and will windows have trouble reading from that system later?
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"Could not change permissions for <path to new file>" with an OK button.
If I write more than one file I'll get one alert box for each file unless I don't press OK until after it finishes writing all the files in which case it will just give me that one that it was showing (once I press OK there aren't any more boxes).
Since I have full ability to read-write this isn't that big of a problem it's just annoying as hell an I'm sure it's pretty simple to get rid of. code...
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I told my friend ext3 and ext4 are very fragmentation resistant compared to ntfs and he questioned me as to what happens if a small file was removed from in between other file chunks and then another (larger) file was to be written and it wouldn't fit there; where would it go? His argument was that the ext filesystem does need to defragment in order to get past that and his argument seems logical. Does anyone know the answer to this? (because it actually captured my curiosity)
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