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Author:  chcw [ April 25th, 2014, 21:54 ]
Post subject:  Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file

I know when a file is allocated on a file system, such as NTFS or FAT32, the file system will allocated some clusters/sectors for it. After the file is allocated, is there a tool that can move the clusters allocated to the file from one location to another, and update the file system meta data as well? This is just like a defragment for a file manually.

Author:  ReclaiMe [ April 27th, 2014, 8:19 ]
Post subject:  Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file

If you want to defragment a single file, CONTIG from SysInternals does it.
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspx

Author:  chcw [ April 27th, 2014, 9:50 ]
Post subject:  Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file

It seems that CONTIG is a commandline tool, not GUI based?

Author:  ReclaiMe [ April 27th, 2014, 11:23 ]
Post subject:  Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file

Correct.

Author:  HaQue [ April 27th, 2014, 22:45 ]
Post subject:  Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file

does the OP want to also specify where the file is now located? I dont think Contig does that.

Author:  chcw [ April 28th, 2014, 9:44 ]
Post subject:  Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file

Yes, I do want to do so. Thank.

Author:  HaQue [ April 28th, 2014, 10:36 ]
Post subject:  Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file

Can you code? I don't think it would be that difficult to write a util to do it

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