Marking as fixed.
** Changed in: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/243287
Title:
Copying files from Linux to NTFS Partition (using
Fixed, in 2009.03.08, in #349569 there is also a solution to get rid of
these system blocks.
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Copying files from Linux to NTFS Partition (using NTFS-3G) makes random-placed
non-movable system blocks which causes file fragmentation
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I can also confirm this behaviour, the scattered system blocks cause
fragmentation by limiting the amount of continuous free space. They
don't seem to dissapear after deleting the files, but they where
definitely created after copying stuff from ubuntu with ntfs-3g. I will
do a metadata image as
what i did is offline defragmentation, because i took the hard drive from my
brother's computer to my computer, and defrag it by an USB connection.
The confusing thing is, when i'm copying with Windows, there are no such
system blocks left, which described before.
I'll post the NTFS debug later
Here are some info what kind of fragmentations exist. It's important to
read because fragmentation types are often misunderstood:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation_(computer)
The NTFS-3G driver tries hard not to fragment files and if you're doing
a lot of concurrent writes then you will
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: ntfs-3g
When I'm copying files from Ubuntu to any NTFS partition, firstly the
files become heavily fragmented, so I defragged the volume using
Microsoft Disk Defragmenter in Windows XP and OO Defrag in Windows
Vista.
I wonder why my
