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Comment by raverbashing

10 years ago

So what happens exactly if you run this on Ext3/4, HFS, NTFS or other modern fss?

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delan  10 years ago

Probably fail spectacularly, as it seems to make modifications to the FAT32 data structures directly. A more generic fragmenter might interact with a file system via pathological file access patterns, but this doesn’t take that approach.

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