Not enough space on the disk

Defraggler
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Hi all,

running the latest defraggler on a very small XP partition, only 5.8GB, 19% free.

There are no big files on this drive. What would cause this?

In the defrag settings, I do have "move large files to the end" selected,

intended for one of the other partitions. The largest file on this XP is the

pagefile, 1GB, and that's not moveable anyway.

I ran it again, but this time I deselected "move large files to the end".

and it finished OK. It's odd, because as I said, there are no large files

in this partiton. Here's the analysis by a program called Tressize Free which shows the

file allocation.

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I think it doesn't mean there isn't enough FREE SPACE per se (total physical space) but that there aren't any big free space GAPS in total. I think it's due to DF defragging algorithm. It opens too many gaps while defragmenting (specially at the end of the disk).

3

Your comment sounds reasonable, but I would ask why does it need to find a big space,

since all the files in that partition are small (< 100MB) ?

4

I don't know. Maybe the algorithm has got some small bugs.

5

maybe relativity may be a consideration.

yes your files are 'small' but so is the partition.

a 1gib pagefile is still 17% of a 5.8gib partition.

(just an idea)

6

Yes the XP partation is WAY to small. Needs to be at least 20 GB, not 6GB.