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Re: NTFS fragmentation

Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
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Also, I tried the following experiment - found a 17 MB file in ibiblio.org and downloaded it with FireFox. The file ended up fragmented into more than 200 pieces. Tried the same file with IE - no fragmentation.

The difference is probably that IE initially creates the file with full size and then overwrites it. This is at least the case if you copy files with explorer, copy, xcopy or CopyFileEx().

FireFox, Cygwin's cp and most other programs use regular sequential write. This may lead to fragmentation when the disk has less space.

Christian


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