Confirmed on an NTFS file system. It applies for those file systems that do not support the FIEMAP ioctl, and so filefrag has to fall back to the legacy (and far more inefficient) FIBMAP ioctl.
** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to e2fsprogs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1356496 Title: filefrag shows wrong number of extents Status in “e2fsprogs” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Package: E2fsprogs version 1.42.8 In NTFS (and possibly other non-Linux filesystems), adding a '-v' switch to the filefrag command gives a different result from executing the command without the '-v' switch, for the same file. For example: $ sudo filefrag DSC_0466.mov DSC_0466.mov: 1 extent found $ sudo filefrag -v DSC_0466.mov Filesystem type is: 65735546 File size of DSC_0466.mov is 38347615 (9363 blocks of 4096 bytes) Discontinuity: Block 1727 is at 53086291 (was 53063600) Discontinuity: Block 2547 is at 53168245 (was 53087111) Discontinuity: Block 4398 is at 53184685 (was 53170096) Discontinuity: Block 6193 is at 53276776 (was 53186480) Discontinuity: Block 6297 is at 53289023 (was 53276880) Discontinuity: Block 6422 is at 53344771 (was 53289148) Discontinuity: Block 7875 is at 53369116 (was 53346224) DSC_0466.mov: 8 extents found This has nothing to do with file system buffers, since this file has been on the disk for several months. This bug report says that the problem is fixed in E2fsprogs version 1.41: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927541 but I think it has been fixed only for ext* file systems, since the problem exists with E2fsprogs version 1.42.8, with NTFS, but not with ext4. I think the problem also exists with FAT file systems, but I can't currently check this. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1356496/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp