Defrag total defrag

[Super Fast]

Defraggler is a good utility, but sometimes it seems to do a great job of defragging/consolidating a drive.

 

But other times, there are huge gaps of free space with lots of files scattered all over the drive.

It appears that it does defragment the fragments, but file consolidation appears partial many times.

 

Any chance of adding some kind of check to ensure a drive is "totally consolidated" as opposed to partially?

This could be really important to a user if they needed "X" block size & it was already filled on the drive with small files...

 

The files appear to be random that defraggler leaves, & this is on drives that are connected externally.

[Guest]

Are you using a full drive defrag or just a file defrag? Are the scattered files normal ones or do they have names like $UsnJrnl? Sometimes these files are locked during normal operation and cannot be moved.

[Super Fast]

These are external drives connected via USB under XP SP2 Pro.

 

Size of the drive seems irrelevant, as it is common to have 40 GB free space on one drive, 200 GB free on another, etc.

Files are not system ($UsnJrnl/system volume, etc) but appear to be regular, normal files.

Drives are done with full defrag

 

Defrag is repeated a 2cd or 3rd time only to have the files still scattered.

A lot of files are consolidated, free spaces are much bigger & more contiguous, but it is bothersome to have free space for a few GB, files in a cluster, then another few GB free space.

 

I will try to check later on more of what the files are.

 

Thanks!