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From: Alain
Date: 12 Nov 2007 19:20:08
Message: <4738edb8$1@news.povray.org>

Jim Henderson nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/12 13:43:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:26:48 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> 
>> More precisely, if you have a fragmented file taking 3 blocks and
>> filling them each only 10%, defragging that file will free two blocks.
> 
> I don't think that can happen with "standard" files in NTFS or FAT - why 
> would the OS write to a partial block but not the entire block?  Doesn't 
> make sense to me...
> 
> Jim
Ever heard of "sparse" files?

-- 
Alain
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