[parted-devel] Feature requests

[leslie.polzer at gmx.net]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:23:44AM -0500, Gary L. Greene, Jr. wrote:

> Parted doesn't move any data, all it does is shrink to a certain
> margin from the last allocated block. This is because there are no
> defrag utilities for filesystems in Linux, let alone Fat8/12/16/32 or
> NTFS. As it is, the tools that do that under their native OS' don't do
> such a great job of it either....
That's not right.  Parted has its own FAT implementation, and it's
probably the best out there.  Its ext2 code was also written
independently, and moves data around in the shrinking process.

  The Linux NTFS tools move unallocated space to the end of the
partition, too, when resizing.

  Leslie

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