POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Why is defragging so slow? : Re: Why is defragging so slow? Server Time
6 Sep 2024 03:16:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Why is defragging so slow?  
From: scott
Date: 4 Jun 2009 08:01:48
Message: <4a27b7ac@news.povray.org>
>  But that's the problem: There *isn't* enough contiguous space for the
> large file to be stored unfragmented because there's a bunch of small 
> files
> scattered all over the free space, and the defragmenter is refusing to 
> move
> those files to make space, for an unknown reason.

After you've moved off the 1GB file the defragmenter might behave 
differently?

Anyway, even if there wasn't 1GB of contiguous free space, the file will 
likely not get fragmented as much as it is currently, so it won't do any 
harm.


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