Re: Defraggers for XP

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From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.lan)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:02:48 GMT

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:55:15 +0000, Gerry Cornell wrote:

> Would you not agree that placing particular folders / files in
> particular partitions is exercising significant control over file
> layout! In this situation the user has more than "little control over
> file layout". This goes toward making the benefits of a third party Disk
> Defragmenter far less than claimed.

No, you have no control over the file placement, only that you can put
files on partitions. The layout on Disk, which is what's relevant to
Defragging, is completely up to the OS or disk management tools.

You can attempt to lessen fragmentation by choosing an lesser used
partition, but you can't pick where the land on the media.

> The great majority of persons posting to Microsoft newsgroups top post!
> However, that's another debate for another day.

Yea, and if just one is converted per day, that means two the next day,
and it grows, some day they may all post properly :) 

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