Re: Is there a way to defrag the MFT file and inode data?

"Gerry" <gerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How often is the MFT file a really significant size in terms of the size
of modern hard drives.

The size of the of the MFT file on my 24 gb windows partitition is 79 mb!


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VanguardLH wrote:
Antonio Perez wrote:

VanguardLH V@xxxxxxxxx wrote previously in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware:

Once the free sectors beyond the reserved MFT space gets consumed,
additional files will start consuming the "reserved" MFT space....
[big snip]

You are missing completely the point here, the explanation i've read
in painful detail somewhere else.

The point is: What to do _after_ is fragmented...

After all that work, and assuming you increased the
NtfsMftZoneReservation before reformatting the partition, when you run
defrag.msc and run Analyze to look at the report, what is the value
for "Percent MFT in use"?

Was all this effort for a data-only partition? Or did you somehow do
all this for the partition containing Windows?



Here is what Windows XP defrag reports on my 1 TB drive (2 500 GB Raid 0):

Volume QJMP6600_1H (H:)
Volume size = 932 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 926 GB
Free space = 5.97 GB
Percent free space = 0 %

Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 0 %
File fragmentation = 0 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %

File fragmentation
Total files = 2,351
Average file size = 444 MB
Total fragmented files = 1
Total excess fragments = 1
Average fragments per file = 1.00

Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 0 bytes
Total fragments = 0

Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 455
Fragmented folders = 1
Excess folder fragments = 0

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 3 MB
MFT record count = 2,821
Percent MFT in use = 99 %
Total MFT fragments = 2

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Fragments File Size Most fragmented files
2 1,024 MB
\DVDs\National_Treasure_2\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_4.VOB

Of course they are all large files (ripped DVDs).

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