On Saturday 26 August 2006 3:54 pm, John Andersen wrote:
Clue: defrag first. Absolutely. Like FAT32 and FAT16, NTFS does not attempt to keep things defragmented. Additionally, you might also notice that some files do not get moved by the defragmenter. I was amused a while back when I installed Windows 2000 from scratch on a clean system where, after the installation there was quite a bit of fragmentaiton. Even on old (ancient is more appropriate) Unix systems, a simple backup and restore of a hightly fragmented file system would leave an unfragmented system. In the olden days, the way to defragment a Unix file system was to back up, reformat - mkfs, then restore. The newer Unix and Linux file systems handle fragmentation quite well, and there sould be very little fragmentation on a modern Linux or Unix file system unless it is well over 80% utilized. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9