defragmenting

[Gary Wessle]

Hi

why does my win2000 pro says that it is recommended to defragment this
volume even though I just did.

here is the report
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Volume C (C:
Volume size = 27,286 MB
Cluster size = 512 bytes
Used space = 15,446 MB
Free space = 11,840 MB
Percent free space = 43 %

Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 11 %
File fragmentation = 23 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %

File fragmentation
Total files = 55,038
Average file size = 362 KB
Total fragmented files = 30
Total excess fragments = 766
Average fragments per file = 1.01

Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 500 MB
Total fragments = 4

Directory fragmentation
Total directories = 3,309
Fragmented directories = 1
Excess directory fragments = 3

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 157 MB
MFT record count = 59,818
Percent MFT in use = 37 %
Total MFT fragments = 4
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thanks

 

[John John]

Run PageDefrag by Sysinternals
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html to reduce some of
the leftover fragmentation. Based on the Cluster size reported it
appears that your drive went through a FAT32 to NTFS conversion without
proper preparation (NTFS Alignment), you will forever be plagued with
fragmentation issues. Just do your defragmentation once in a while and
ignore the reports after you defrag. Some of the files on the volume
will never be defraged unless you use third party tools. It's not that
big a deal to have some fragmentation on the drive, it's really almost a
non issue unless the fragmentation is extremely high.

John

 

[Gary Wessle]

thanks,

how would one know whether or not the fragmentation is extremely high
or not?

 

[paulmd]

thanks,

how would one know whether or not the fragmentation is extremely high
or not?

According to the report you sent, you have about 30 files accounting
for 700 fragmesnt of files. Dempending on what these heavily fragmented
files are, you may chose to ignore this. You see this happen with very
large files, those that are hundreds of megabytes in size. Since thees
files are usually data files, and not programs, it's ok to ignore
fragmentation.