You can either defrag prior to copying (if you have a defragmenter that is
capable of consolidating free space) or defrag afterwards.
- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System
Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.
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> Means that if I have a contiguous free space on c: then
> the file will store contiguously from D: to C:. Do we
> need to run the defragmentation on C: after copying.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Godwin,
> >
> >When you copy the compacted datastore from C: to D:, the
> file system will
> >only be able to create the file contiguously if there is
> a large enough
> >piece of contiguous free space on the C: drive. You
> would need to
> >defragment the C: drive and make sure that the
> defragmenter that you are
> >using is consolidating the free space on the drive.
> >
> >- Greg/Raxco Software
> >Microsoft MVP - Windows File System
> >
> >Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of
> PerfectDisk - a
> >commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the
> support department.
> >
> >Want to email me? Delete ntloader.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"Godwin Lam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
> in message
> >news:000801c3a281$686ab390$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> I am using the Exchange utility to do the offline
> >> defragment from C: to D: drive. Then I delete the
> >> Priv1.edb in C: and copy the defragment file from D:.
> I
> >> guess it should be continued in the C: but it is not.
> >> The file still fragmented. The priv.edb is 4GB. We
> have
> >> 36GB in the harddisk and only used 3GB on system. I
> have
> >> defragment the C: after delete the old PRIV.EDB. The
> >> file in D: is continues.
> >
> >
> >.
> >
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