davexnet Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eL_PuSHeR Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davexnet Posted October 15, 2013 Author Share Posted October 15, 2013 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) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eL_PuSHeR Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 I don't know. Maybe the algorithm has got some small bugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators mta Posted October 16, 2013 Moderators Share Posted October 16, 2013 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) Backup now & backup often.It's your digital life - protect it with a backup.Three things are certain; Birth, Death and loss of data. You control the last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hinata Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 Yes the XP partation is WAY to small. Needs to be at least 20 GB, not 6GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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