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Support and Feedback / Copy files avoiding fragmentation
« on: December 31, 2017, 12:45:28 »
Hello.
I am trying to copy all the files from one USB drive to another (both formatted in NTFS).
I was hoping to get all the destination files defragmented, as it is newly formatted, but absolutely every file end up being at least 3 fragments!
This comes down to the Read/Write chunk size. Apparently, multicommander will split files at that boundary, preactically guaranteeing that files will be fragmented. This feels to me like a very bad flaw, or I am missing an option to prevent this?
Would putting the chunk size to 0 solve it? And if it does, why isn't this the default?
I am trying to copy all the files from one USB drive to another (both formatted in NTFS).
I was hoping to get all the destination files defragmented, as it is newly formatted, but absolutely every file end up being at least 3 fragments!
This comes down to the Read/Write chunk size. Apparently, multicommander will split files at that boundary, preactically guaranteeing that files will be fragmented. This feels to me like a very bad flaw, or I am missing an option to prevent this?
Would putting the chunk size to 0 solve it? And if it does, why isn't this the default?