Warp wrote:
>   I don't understand the problems I'm getting defragmenting.
> 
>   I'm trying to defragment my primary Windows partition, which is NTFS.
> It's failing to defragment one big file because there's "no space" for it.
> The file is about 1 GB in size, and there's over 9 GB of free space in the
> partition.
> 
>   The problem is that while defrag is defragmenting all the other files,
> for some reason it's only compacting *some* of the files to be at the
> beginning of the partition, but not others. The free space is scattered
> with tiny small files which the defragmenter is not compacting, even though
> it compacted other files just fine. The majority of the contents were nicely
> packed to the beginning of the partition, except for these hundreds of tiny
> files. And no, the tiny files are *not* marked as "unmovable". They are
> marked with the same color as all the other movable files.
> 
>   The other, lighter defragger is behaving the exact same way: It's just
> refusing to move these small files, and consequently failing to defrag the
> one huge file. No reason is given in either the visual representation of the
> drive (all these tiny files are colored as regular, movable data) nor the
> analysis reports for this.
> 
>   As a consequence, I simply *can't* add any file bigger than a certain size
> to this partition without it becoming fragmented. There isn't enough
> contiguous free space because of all these scattered tiny files.
> 
>   I can't understand why both programs are doing this.
> 
The Norton one, which you "used to be able to get as a separate 
utility", fracking Norton..., would rearrange things so that a) commonly 
used files where all in the same space, things in the same directories 
where in the same space, actual directory data was located near the 
start of the disk, so it was accessed faster, and compacted "all" empty 
space, so that your existing files where at the start of the drive, not 
scattered all over the damn place. Then they came out with Win95, and 
some files got "locked" so you couldn't move them at all, never mind how 
fracking fragmented they got/made things, but it "still" used smart 
rearranging on everything else. Now.. I have no idea what it actually 
does, or it even technically available, especially as something other 
than part of 3-4 other things you don't need, and slow the system, do to 
them running in the background all the time.

I personally find it incomprehensible that nothing else anyone makes 
seems to be able to do anything as "simple" as compressing used space to 
the start of the drive, so your "unused" space is contiguous, never mind 
being "smart enough" to defrag that big 1G file, even without "enough 
room", by arranging other fragments to give you the space, instead of 
just leaving them empty. Its like handing a moron a paint brush and 
coming back to find themselves sitting on the top of the kitchen counter 
whining, "I painted myself into a corner!", only.. there are sections of 
floor, all in between them and the door, none big enough to jump to or 
step on, but never the less "unpainted", which they planned to "get back 
to later". :p And, that the MS defrag takes the idiot amount of time it 
does to paint itself into that same corner... Obviously mentally 
challenged, "as well as" stupid. lol

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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