DEFRAG (greeen bits)

[Guest John]

At one time when I ran defrag I only used to have one or two green

(unmovable) stripes. I now have 6 - is there anything I should do about

this? I like to keep things optimised.

[Guest philo]

Re: DEFRAG (greeen bits)

 

 

"John" <Who90nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message

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> At one time when I ran defrag I only used to have one or two green

> (unmovable) stripes. I now have 6 - is there anything I should do about

> this? I like to keep things optimised.

>

>

 

 

Nothing to worry about...

[Guest db.·.. >]

Re: DEFRAG (greeen bits)

 

you can do more

defrag with a freeware

from microsoft.com

called pagedefrag.

 

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"John" <Who90nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message

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> At one time when I ran defrag I only used to have one or two green (unmovable)

> stripes. I now have 6 - is there anything I should do about this? I like to

> keep things optimised.

>

[Guest Gerry]

Re: DEFRAG (greeen bits)

 

John

 

I would be interested in seeing a Disk Defragmenter report. Open Disk

Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and

click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents

Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it

is more informative.

 

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Hope this helps.

 

Gerry

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FCA

Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute

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John wrote:

> At one time when I ran defrag I only used to have one or two green

> (unmovable) stripes. I now have 6 - is there anything I should do

> about this? I like to keep things optimised.

[Guest C.Joseph S. Drayton]

Re: DEFRAG (greeen bits)

 

John wrote:

>At one time when I ran defrag I only used to have one or two green

>(unmovable) stripes. I now have 6 - is there anything I should do

>about this? I like to keep things optimised.

 

There is a posibility that you are using a Windows managed pagefile

which means that the size of the pagefile is dynamic. In that case,

your pagefile could be on a couple of different sections of the hard

disk. When I do use a pagefile (which is almost NEVER), I have it set

to a fixed size and the whole file is allocated at one time. If the

hard disk has been properly defragged right before this, you get one

file that is contiguous.

 

You will also get very slightly better performance from the pagefile

since it is not having to move all over the hard disk to find sections

of itself.

 

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Sincerely,

C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

 

CSD Computer Services

 

Web site: http://csdcs.itgo.com/

E-mail: cjoseph@csdcs.itgo.com

[Guest Bill in Co.]

Re: DEFRAG (greeen bits)

 

C.Joseph S. Drayton wrote:

> John wrote:

>

>> At one time when I ran defrag I only used to have one or two green

>> (unmovable) stripes. I now have 6 - is there anything I should do

>> about this? I like to keep things optimised.

>

> There is a posibility that you are using a Windows managed pagefile

> which means that the size of the pagefile is dynamic. In that case,

> your pagefile could be on a couple of different sections of the hard

> disk. When I do use a pagefile (which is almost NEVER), I have it set

> to a fixed size and the whole file is allocated at one time. If the

> hard disk has been properly defragged right before this, you get one

> file that is contiguous.

>

> You will also get very slightly better performance from the pagefile

> since it is not having to move all over the hard disk to find sections

> of itself.

 

What is also interesting is that sometimes the fairly large (default 15%(?)

of the disk space) so-called, "reserved MFT zone" becomes quite small, OR

vice versa (suddenly reappears again in the middle of the drive, back at

15%).

 

I haven't figured out why it sometimes changes this way (after doing

restores, backups, etc).

[Guest Nonny]

Re: DEFRAG (greeen bits)

 

On Fri, 30 May 2008 21:08:51 -0600, "Bill in Co."

<not_really_here@earthlink.net> wrote:

>What is also interesting is that sometimes the fairly large (default 15%(?)

>of the disk space) so-called, "reserved MFT zone" becomes quite small, OR

>vice versa (suddenly reappears again in the middle of the drive, back at

>15%).

>

>I haven't figured out why it sometimes changes this way (after doing

>restores, backups, etc).

 

It's 12.5%. And it gets smaller as needed, i.e., it will get smaller

if space is needed for other files. The only permanent thing about it

is that the MFT reserved space is the last to be used for storing

files.

[Guest Bill in Co.]

Re: DEFRAG (greeen bits)

 

Nonny wrote:

> On Fri, 30 May 2008 21:08:51 -0600, "Bill in Co."

> <not_really_here@earthlink.net> wrote:

>

>> What is also interesting is that sometimes the fairly large (default

>> 15%(?)

>> of the disk space) so-called, "reserved MFT zone" becomes quite small, OR

>> vice versa (suddenly reappears again in the middle of the drive, back at

>> 15%).

>>

>> I haven't figured out why it sometimes changes this way (after doing

>> restores, backups, etc).

>

> It's 12.5%. And it gets smaller as needed, i.e., it will get smaller

> if space is needed for other files. The only permanent thing about it

> is that the MFT reserved space is the last to be used for storing files.

 

Well, I was talking about a HUGE change in its size, when I still have tons

of disk space.

 

I mean, if you look at the defragger legend map, sometimes the "reserved MFT

Zone" is only a few clusters in size, and at some other times, it looks like

its the good old, 12.5% of the total disk space - depending on its mood.

In ALL cases, I have PLENTY of disk space (about half of the disk is free),

and that hasn't changed.