Fun fact: Due to rotational speed, beginning of a HDD is fastest, so Windows logs files accessed during boot to move them, speed itself up.
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Fun fact: Except for some early and dangerous implementations, all defragmenters use the same API to move files. They never have raw access.
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Fun fact: NTFS actually uses branching layers of pointers to keep track of file fragments on the disk.
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And they're stored in a weird delta-compressed format. And the MFT itself is subject to this scheme, which raises a chicken-and-egg issue.
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ntfsresize borked the chicken-and-egg corner case and then I found myself learning all this crap to recover data.https://marcan.st/2015/10/rescuing-a-broken-ntfs-filesystem/ …
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