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6 Sep 2024 05:16:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Why is defragging so slow?  
From: scott
Date: 5 Jun 2009 02:34:02
Message: <4a28bc5a$1@news.povray.org>
>> Did you try the command line version 'defrag'?  On Vista at least, there 
>> appears to be a -w option that "Performs full defragmentation. Attempts 
>> to consolidate all file fragments, regardless of their size.".
>
> No. Vista defrag won't defrag chunks if they're already >64M or some such 
> size. I.e., you can have a file with three 66M chunks and defrag won't try 
> to defrag it without the -w flag. Again, the cost/benefit ratio.

Ah ok, I checked on my XP box and there is a -f flag, to force defrag even 
with low freespace - maybe this would help Warp?


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