RE: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions

[Mike & Tracy Holt]

There are a couple of different reasons for this.  First, make sure you're
not filling your harddrive to full - defrag re-arranges stuff by picking up
blocks and putting them at the end of the drive and moving stuff back - if
you're harddrive is more than %80 full, that makes the job much slower.
Second, make sure you have enough RAM and processor for the job - if you
have a two 45GB drives with a 233 pentium and 32megs of RAM, that's going to
take all night.  Third, make sure you keep up with the job - try to defrag a
few times a month.  I'm sorry if these sound like obvious things, but on my
700 Athlon w/512 megs of RAM I can defrag my Win98 partition in about 10-30
minutes, depending on the state it's in.

>Windows 98's defrag is insane. I mean, you have to begin a defrag at
>11:00pm,
>and run it all night! Very inefficient.
>
>--
>Roman
>Registered Linux User #179293
>