Jim Henderson wrote:
> 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 

I don't know about FAT, but I was surprised when I saw a log file that 
actually consumed more clusters than there were lines in the file. WTF?

> would the OS write to a partial block but not the entire block?  Doesn't 
> make sense to me...

Open the file, write a little bit, close it. Open it again, append a 
little, close it. Repeat.  Possibly it requires other people to also 
have the file open at the same time, as for reading or something?

NTFS isn't very good at avoiding fragmentation, methinks.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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