Hi! > I tried to defragment my 10Gb fat32 hdd. I choose quick try. > terminates: the working the disk map appears not fragmented. > I quit and exit, then restarting defrag: the map is the same > as before quick try.
Because quick try only takes care that each file consists of only ONE area on the disk. It does not take care that there are no unused areas BETWEEN the files... I guess you could do a second run after the "quick try" in some mode like "move files to the beginning of the disk". Worst case would be that this mode has to copy every used data cluster once. This is slow but not as slow as having to "move files out of the way". So combining "defragment files, quick try style" with a 2nd step "move files and dirs to the beginning of the disk" after that should give you a completely defragmented and compact disk (nice for filesystem resize and nice for speed) in most cases. In SOME cases, when there is not enough consecutive free space for the quick try file defrag, only the very SLOW (and more sensitive) full defragmentation in old style could help you. I hope I explained that correctly :-) Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
