-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-02-16 at 17:04 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
In my recent experience having admin duties for some XP machines while I was in Baghdad, defragging took several hours for some NTFS partitions in the 40G - 60G range.
I have always thought that this defragmenting thing could be speedied a lot. It shouldn't take much longer than reading and writing 40*2 GB. It could be done against a spare disk, for instance, in chunks of 1..20 GB, provided the machine has a good UPS. Even without it, if ram is 2 GB, it could be done in 1GB chunks. Years ago I was thinking of writing my own defragmenter for vfat... but I never started. The question for XP admins is if that task is really worthwhile; I mean, if having a computer off-line for several hours with heavy disk activity and wear, as compared to been perhaps a small percent slower in normal use. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHuOfNtTMYHG2NR9URAroeAJ9k1YcpMgV1IS1GZ3y7R1hFqYgaiQCcDPaT phe0OjOy8mA4bY2a2JfKX20= =d27Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org