Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > With the latest NTFS-3G release (2014.2.15), I noticed improvements to > shrinking NTFS volumes. > > I was curious as to how this works if I would like to clone a 2TB drive > to a 250GB drive. In this case, the NTFS file system on the 2TB drive is > mostly empty (used space of about 50GB). So there is more than enough > room to fit on 250GB drive.
Did you try such a shrinking ? The improvement is only about the existing MFT being outside the shrunk space, and this is a rare condition (fragmented MFT). Regards Jean-Pierre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
