[Bug 243287] Re: Copying files from Linux to NTFS Partition (using NTFS-3G) makes random-placed non-movable system blocks which causes file fragmentation

[Thomas Hotz]

Marking as fixed.

** Changed in: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  Copying files from Linux to NTFS Partition (using NTFS-3G) makes
  random-placed non-movable system blocks which causes file
  fragmentation

Status in “ntfs-3g” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  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 O&O Defrag in Windows
  Vista.

  I wonder why my volume could not defragged perfectly like the other
  times when i'm not copying the files using Linux.

  I see a lot of system block colored identifier in the Cluster view in
  O&O Defrag scattered everywhere. I don't know how to eliminate these
  unnecessary system blocks (I wonder what data contained there) without
  reformatting the partition.

  So, each time when i'm going to copy an abundant amount of files (in
  this case 120000+ files, from a few KBs to 6 GBs), the data will be
  fragmented because thete are not enough contiguous blocks for the
  system to write in.

  Linux Distributions : Probably Any linux Distributions (maybe, coz
  i've tried fedora 8, ubuntu 8.04 LTS, mandriva 2007.1 (spring), etc
  and the results are the same from the fresh install)

  NTFS-3G version : any version to date (any stable or either unstable
  versions included in the distributions listed above)

  This have been happened since i were using ubuntu 7.04 (first time
  using ubuntu)

  I hope that there is:
  1. a way to eliminate these sectors by hand without reformatting the partition
  2. a way to prevent this thing further occurrence

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