Fredrik Eriksson <fe79}--at--{yahoo}--dot--{com> wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:07:26 +0200, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> >   I have a secondary 180GB FAT32 partition

> That would be the biggest problem right there. FAT32 is really horrible on  
> partitions that large.

  Why would FAT32 become slow with partitions that large?

  And anyways, no matter how slow it is, it still doesn't explain why
defragmenting 50 GB takes 35 hours.

> If you absolutely must use FAT32 (compatibility with other operating  
> systems being the only plausible reason), the fastest way to defrag is to  
> simply copy everything to another partition (or a spare drive), reformat,  
> and then copy everything back.

  Why can't defragmenters do exactly that when there's over half of free
space in the partition?

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                                                          - Warp

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