Is it possible to defragment exfat and NTFS under Linux?

Question

linux

Actually the question is clear. I have an external hard drive with exfat. Due to its features, sometimes it is necessary to do defragmentation on it. And I really don’t want to reboot into Windows every time or use a virtual machine.

Answer 1

Already looking for an answer to a similar problem, but as I understand it, there are no adequate solutions yet.
In some cases, you can apply this approach:
$mv /my_disk /mnt/temporary_storage
$mv /mnt/temporary_storage /my_disk
But if there are over 9000 written bytes on the disk, then this, of course, is not the case. But you can do this with constantly updated directories.

Answer 2

For NTFS there is ultradefrag ( jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/advanced-ntfs-3g.html , download not from sorsforge, but from jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/download-tarball.htm... In modern It won't compile on Linux because the paths to the libraries have been hardcoded.. You can get the ebuild with the patch here: https://git.blshadow.org.ru/gentoo-overlays/smover...