Defragment error

[Susan]

When I run Disk Defragmenter analysis on one of our server
partitions I get the following message:
"Volume APPS (D has 41% free space, but only 0% is
available for use by Disk Defragmenter.
To run effectively, Disk Defragmenter requires at least
10% usable space. Before running Disk Degframenter, you
should delete some files or move files to another disk or
storage device to increase usable free space."

We are running Windows 2000 Server SP4 with a raid 5
setup. We have three partitions - one for the system, one
for applications and one for data. The partition that is
giving us trouble is the applications partitions.

If there is 41% free space why am I getting this message.
Also, why does the analysis show the free space as system
files?? How can I correct this problem, so that I can
degfragment this partition?

 

[Joe Griffin [MSFT]]

You are getting this error because of the fragmentation of the drive.
There is not enough contiguous free space on the drive for the defragmenter
to run.
Joe Griffin[MS]
--
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
--------------------
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
From: "Susan" <[email protected]>
Sender: "Susan" <[email protected]>
Subject: Defragment error
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:19:31 -0800
Lines: 18
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300
Thread-Index: AcPW/qdFtYFBpaYFSXi4obqhLYvetw==
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.file_system
Path: cpmsftngxa07.phx.gbl
Xref: cpmsftngxa07.phx.gbl microsoft.public.win2000.file_system:16217
NNTP-Posting-Host: tk2msftngxa08.phx.gbl 10.40.1.160
X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.win2000.file_system

When I run Disk Defragmenter analysis on one of our server
partitions I get the following message:
"Volume APPS (D has 41% free space, but only 0% is
available for use by Disk Defragmenter.
To run effectively, Disk Defragmenter requires at least
10% usable space. Before running Disk Degframenter, you
should delete some files or move files to another disk or
storage device to increase usable free space."

We are running Windows 2000 Server SP4 with a raid 5
setup. We have three partitions - one for the system, one
for applications and one for data. The partition that is
giving us trouble is the applications partitions.

If there is 41% free space why am I getting this message.
Also, why does the analysis show the free space as system
files?? How can I correct this problem, so that I can
degfragment this partition?