Re: [Sheflug] Apologies: Writing to NTFS

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 22:36, Jon Masters wrote:
> | Actually, not entirely true. If you can make the file contiguous on
> | disk, and you could work out it's extents, you could copy it using
> | Windows dd.
> 
> Except this is likely not possible. The structure of an NTFS filesystem
> typically precludes this being possible in the same way as with ext2.

If we are using Windows dd, why are we copying from NTFS?

Answer is: we're not, we're copying from ext2. 

Besides, you're still wrong, because neither NTFS or ext2 preclude you
from having contiguous files. Google 'ext2defrag', 'contig.exe', or
'defragmentation'. Nice playing though.

Tra la,

Alex.

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