Free Space Questions

[Boomer]

I have one request, please explain in a more simpler language (for us silicon based challenged individuals) the difference between ?Defrag Freespace? and ?Defrag Freespace Allow Fragmentation?. Your help page doesn?t help and I still don?t know which I want to do.

 

Can you please shed some light on this?

 

I?ve seen on the other thread that there is still a problem with the ?Analysis Failed? report. I?ll keep looking for your update. I do like your programs and I don?t know if it?s said often enough but I thank you for your talents in making these programs (Piriform products) a living thing. I hope my meager donation does justice.

 

Mike Langford

[Nathan Laing]

See this section for an explanation;

 

http://docs.piriform.com/defraggler/using-...pace-on-a-drive

[DennisD]

That link isn't working for me, I get a "bad request" message every time. Anyone else finding that?

 

In case it's not just me:

 

http://docs.piriform.com/defraggler/using-...pace-on-a-drive

[kroozer]

That link isn't working for me, I get a "bad request" message every time. Anyone else finding that?

The webpage cannot be found

HTTP 400 etc

Nathan's link is bogus.

[Whiteshark]

Large files and free space defragmentation

 

How Defraggler defragments freespace

 

Test

[norel]

From my experience, defragging free space doesn't do anything in the first place. The few times I've run it, it's done in like five seconds and nothing changes. I don't know, but it appears to me that Defraggler "optimizes" as part of its standard defrag including the free space.

 

Anyone know for sure about this?

[redhawk]

The idea of defragging freespace is you move all the files scattered on the hard drive to the start of the disk thus creating move contiguous free space.

While this sounds like a great idea in practice it can leave empty gaps inside the compact area of files on your hard drive because the moved files are too big to fit the gaps.

This is why you have "Allow Fragmentation" basically you can fill the empty gaps at the cost of re-fragmenting the files again.

 

Richard S.