Defrag folders on USB drive???

[BD]

I have a USB2 hard drive, and I want to defrag the folders so they're
located at the same spot on the disk. I know Diskeeper does this, but
only on boot-time if you set the software to do it. And in this case,
the machine must not be recognizing the USB device in time on boot-up,
because the boot-time defragmentation doesn't occur.

Maybe I shouldn't expect USB device detection to happen in time for
the boot-time defrag, I'm not sure.

Regardless - is there any app out there that will defrag folders in
this fashion without the need to do it at boot time??

Thanks!!

 

[Ed Light]

"jkdefrag gui" can do that for everything but the master file table
(assuming ntfs).

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"jkdefrag gui" can do that for everything but the master file table
(assuming ntfs).

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Mm... It's FAT32, sadly. The drive is to sling off a USB port in my
car, to hold tunes - it only supports FAT32...

Oh well. Not a deal-breaker by any stretch. Thanks!

 

[Rod Speed]

Mm... It's FAT32, sadly. The drive is to sling off a USB port in my
car, to hold tunes - it only supports FAT32...

Oh well. Not a deal-breaker by any stretch. Thanks!

Why bother to defrag a drive that holds itunes ? The replay speed
is entirely determined by the speed at which the media is played at
and extra seeks that fragments involved will be completely invisible.

 

[Arno Wagner]

Mm... It's FAT32, sadly. The drive is to sling off a USB port in my
car, to hold tunes - it only supports FAT32...

Oh well. Not a deal-breaker by any stretch. Thanks!

Well, if it is just getting slow because of extreme
fragmentation, any disk defragger should do.

Arno

 

[Ed Light]

Mm... It's FAT32, sadly.

jkdefrag gue can still defrag it. It will have a fat instead of an mft
-- not sure if it will move that. You'll see in the gui when it does it.

Just set "free space" to zero. Otherwise it leaves some gaps for temp
files. You want "Analyze, defrag, and fast optimization."

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[Franc Zabkar]

The drive is to sling off a USB port in my
car, to hold tunes - it only supports FAT32...

Why would you want to bounce a hard drive around in your car? Can't
you fit all your MP3 driving music on a 4GB or 8GB flash drive? At
around 3MB per tune, that would be about 300 tunes per GB.

- Franc Zabkar

 

[BD]

Why bother to defrag a drive that holds itunes ?  The replay speed
is entirely determined by the speed at which the media is played at
and extra seeks that fragments involved will be completely invisible.- Hide quoted text -

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The drive sticks into my car. My car stereo has a USB input. I can
play the tunes through my car stereo.

Everything works brilliantly, but the initial scan time (between when
the drive's plugged in and you can start playing) can run about 30
seconds. I'm not sure whether the stereo is reading the filesystem or
the tags during this time. But I thought a defrag of the folders might
speed up the initial seek a bit.

 

[BD]

Why would you want to bounce a hard drive around in your car? Can't
you fit all your MP3 driving music on a 4GB or 8GB flash drive? At
around 3MB per tune, that would be about 300 tunes per GB.

- Franc Zabkar

I can fit a fair bit of music on a flash drive, sure - but over time
I'll stick dribs and drabs more onto it, until it fills up. And it's
just incredibly convenient to have the ability to haul that much music
around in one tiny little package, not having to worry about deleting
some to make room for others... *ever*.

 

[Rod Speed]

The drive sticks into my car. My car stereo has a USB input. I can
play the tunes through my car stereo.

Everything works brilliantly, but the initial scan time (between when the
drive's plugged in and you can start playing) can run about 30 seconds.

I doubt that has anything to do with the drive being fragmented, essentially because
the file system cant be fragmented enough to make much difference to that time.

Likely its just the total number of files thats producing the long time.

I'm not sure whether the stereo is reading the filesystem or
the tags during this time. But I thought a defrag of the folders might
speed up the initial seek a bit.

I doubt it would make any difference at all, essentially because fragmenting
the files themselves is irrelevant to the file system thats being scanned.