text_combined: fred miller akfypexlightlinkcom james knott wrote philipp thomas wrote sun 17 feb 2008 113217 0500 james knott wrote often defrag ntfs partitions defrag tool even show fragmented things tell nothing goodness sake read wikipedia article quoted youll see tool isnt telling whole truth defragging modern filesystem ntfs one seldom buys much philipp mean stuff like ntfs windows 2000 newer include defragmentation tool based diskeeper nt 4 builtin defragmentation utilities unfortunately integrated defragger consolidate free space thus heavily fragmented drive many small files may still large consecutive free space defragmentation new large file instantly split small fragments immediate impact performance happen even overall disk usage less 609 case limitations defragmentation led design decisions modern operating systems like windows vista automatically defragment background process attempt completely defragment volume would produce negligible performance gains7 seems vista automagically defrags backround theres still fragmentation occuring ntfs partitions used os2 hpfs many years also provided 3rd level os2 support ibm canada one thing recall bit map disk space maintained smallest piece free space could hold file plus bit extra would used method would resist fragmenting long reasonable amount free space available hehehehei ready quote beat real world use ntfs fragment easily heavily used mail server anyway admit vista seem better xp xp suffer performance gradation due ntfs fragmented fred messes order people normally read text q topposting bad thing wed 06 aug 2008 102239 0500 opensuse defragging possible necessary