NTFS Needs a regular defrag just like Fat did. WinXP comes with a really bad defrag util as part of the system tools. (right click drive > properties > tools as always). It may fragment abit slower than fat did but it still fragments alot especially if you install and uninstall alot of stuff. Though it doesn't seem to affect preformance quite as much as it did on fat systems. The main reason for running defrag before resizing is not to so much defragment the drive as to move the files away from the "end" of the drive. Allowing the resize programs to deal with empty space which saves having to worry about moving all the data around and rewritting it earlier on the drive.
Chad On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 00:04, Zane Gilmore wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 14:57, Chad wrote: > > Mandrake 9.2 and later (not sure about 9.1) can do non-destructive > > resizing of ntfs you need to defrag in windows then just use the Mandrake > > tools. > > I thought that defragging was reasonably irrelevant on NTFS like ext2/3 > because of the way they work. > > My understanding is that it is only FAT that requires defragging. > Am I wrong?
