text_combined: aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom carlos e r wrote begin pgp signed message hash sha1 saturday 20080216 1704 0500 aaron kulkis wrote recent experience admin duties xp machines baghdad defragging took several hours ntfs partitions 40g 60g range always thought defragmenting thing could speedied lot shouldnt take much longer reading writing 402 gb could done spare disk instance chunks 120 gb provided machine good ups even without ram 2 gb could done 1gb chunks years ago thinking writing defragmenter vfat never started mss defragger poorly designed code works brute force methodology intelligence nortons defragger much betterit optimizes disk head movements defragging process also allows specify certain file types towards beginning partition optimizing access files pushing towards back blob blocks use files tend likely modified first time defrag disk nortons software takes extremely long timebut done defrags take significantly less time also result filesystem layout quite well optimized provided things like specifying exe dll put front question xp admins task really worthwhile mean computer offline several hours heavy disk activity wear compared perhaps small percent slower normal use users dont like waiting around mses pathetically slow os fidget around even due ultrapatheticallyslow disk access wed 06 aug 2008 104043 0500 opensuse defragging possible necessary