Questions tagged [defragment]
Defragmentation is the process that reduces the amount of fragmentation on a hard disk drive.
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Right parameters for defrag on Windows Server 2012 R2
In Windows Server 2012 R2 I used the standard dfrgui.exe to turn the scheduled optimization on. After several months I looked at the Defrag UI again and noticed that drives were never optimized since ...
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Windows Server Scheduled Drive Optimization (defrag/TRIM) drives list is empty
I want to setup scheduled drives optimization on Windows Server 2019 (defrag HDDs and TRIM SSDs).
The Optimize Drives main window lists my drives properly. But when I want to select the drives that I ...
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How to prevent massive fragmentation when copying large files to NTFS HDD?
I have some virtual machines, and for example the first one I'm looking at is 89gb.
Unfortunately when I try to copy it to a new drive it forms around 100,000 fragments (more than 1 per mb.)
I don't ...
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Manually defragmenting a Mac? Strange phenomenon with CPU usage
Processes on Mac OSX getting 'stuck' and strange CPU usage describes the same phenomenon, but for writing. My question concerns reading.
OS X version 10.8.5
I have about 30 million small files on my ...
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Defragmenting partitions with Raid 0
In my current disk configuration it is 2+2 TB Raid 0. Since this 4TB of space was almost full, I installed two more disks in Raid 0. (2+2 TB) I have 8 TB of volume space in total.
But in Ubuntu, the ...
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Defraggler left some spots at the end of my SSD
Initially, I wanted to make a dual boot with Linux on my laptop and to accomplish that I had to shrink my C: Partition.
I couldn't do that because there was just ~6 GB of space to shrink, so for that ...
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How to close firefox when the system feels so bad that the cursor barely moves?
I have a habit of having lots of tabs in my browser. Now I am using Debian and Firefox after many years of being Windows user.
This habit is not a problem on Windows because mouse/cursor is totally ...
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Why can't I fully defragment my USB?
On my NTFS USB Drive, I need to have isos defragmented to be able to boot them. But neither Windows' native defragmentation nor UltraDefrag fully defragment my files, as verified by contig on Windows ...
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Defrag NTFS file system on SSD drive?
I purposely did a bunch of large file operations at the same time knowing it would cause the MFT to grow and become full of runs and building a large attribute list with the idea of just defragging ...
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Can rsync --remove-source-files to the same drive reduce fragmentation?
I know that rsync with --remove-source-files (which I use instead of mv so I can merge directory hierarchies) creates new inodes:
stat 2021_07_30_20_18_17.pdf~
rsync --remove-source-files ...
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like others i cant get fragment down to less than 7%
i now use Piriform CCLEANER PRO to clear out all internet temp files & cache etc every time i close my browser(daily) and i use Piriform CCLEANER PRO to clear out my registry. (twice a week)
i ...
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Windows 10 SSD maintenance/defragmentation/compression query
I have a 1TB Samsung EVO SSD as my system drive (Windows 10). I let it get almost full and paid the price - performance writing new files dropped off by a factor of something like a thousand.
I ...
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How to defragment Virtual Machine in order to optimise virtual HD backups?
I've got the following setup:
a virtual machine with a virtual HDD at 160GB split over around 50 files (it's a VMWare VM, so I'm talking about VMDK files)
after working in the VM for some hours, my ...
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Defrag on SSD when DisableDeleteNotify
What does the scheduled defragmentation really do on a SSD when DisableDeleteNotify is manually set to 1 on recent Windows versions like Win 10?
Assuming that the SSD is properly detected by ...
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I can't use defrag.exe but I can use Optimize-Volume cmdlet
I have encountered a weird problem. I don't know how or why it happened, but it just had happened.
The thing is very simple, I can use Optimize-Volume cmdlet on both PowerShell 7 and Windows ...
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