Fredrik Eriksson 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.

Oh, I didn't even see that part. Yes, agreed - the free space map on a FAT32 
partition that big is huge, and at the wrong end of the disk. :-) To defrag 
a piece of file, it has to read the the directory entry, then the FAT to get 
the location of the file, then read the FAT to find a free space, allocate 
the free space, sync the FAT, copy the sectors, sync the sectors, change the 
directory, sync the directory, then re-read the FAT and fix the previously 
allocated sectors to be free, and sync the FAT.  Lather rinse repeat.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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