Honeyfrog Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 If, after beginning a torrent without full pre-allocation, I later wish to full allocate, is there a way to do that without disrupting all my other currently-trading torrents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeRed Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 That shouldn't be necessary if you have sparse files enabled. I believe NTFS will automatically supply zeros for the unallocated parts when read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 I don't think it actually zeroes the space; it'll just claim a contiguous chunk of space the size of the file in the filesystem without actually doing anything else to the space until it needs to write the file to it.I'm not sure why you'd want to allocate, but if you still want, perhaps you can enable full allocation, then force recheck the torrent you want to allocate the space for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honeyfrog Posted September 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 What I'm trying to do is make as much as possible of a partially-completed torrent readible by other BT applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 Sparse files are a filesystem feature. Any application can read them (but you need to explicitly add support for creating them). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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