Thanks, that's a good data point. I do have the hibernation since this all started with what I'm hoping was just a very fragemented hiberfil.sys (hoping the hibernation problem was nothing more serious, that is).
I did read the MyDefrag docs, for "Monthly" it said, >The script will first defragment and optimize the MFT and all the >directories, then the files used when booting (sorted by boot >sequence), regular files (sorted by path), and the spacehogs (sorted >by path). Between the zones it creates gaps for temporary files. It is very slow so I wouldn't do it too often, but I thought that if it was 80% through Zone 6, a couple of hours' work would leave the MFT, directories, and boot files still pretty defragged and optimized, I didn't expect that it would need to rewrite all the boot files. I did expect it to make no assumptions and to analyze every one of course, but that it would find most of those files in the right place. Apparently I was wrong. :) The Daily is at about 80% of Zone 6 now and I'm hoping we can let it get through to 100% (as long as it finishes soon). The machine seemed very slow while trying to work with MyDefrag running, I'll trying Pausing next time. Thanks again! -- Andrew mailto:[email protected] Monday, May 17, 2010, 5:32:11 PM, you wrote: > At 5/17/2010 11:49 AM, Andrew Webber wrote: >>I ran MyDefrag (JKDefrag) on "Optimize Monthly" for about 18 hours and >>it got to about 80% of Zone 6 before we had to use the machine. The >>docs say it's safe to stop it at any time, and we did. > ... >>Last night I started it up in Monthly again and this morning it was at >>40% of Zone 4. It's discouraging to think a couple of hours' work >>would have triggered such extensive re-optimizing, especially since we >>had to use it for a couple of hours this morning. > Read documentation carefully. > a) MyDefrag's "Monthly" optimization should not be used repeatedly > like this, because it literally reorders every file on your drive. > So, that's right, even one change could result in a need to redo the whole > drive. > b) You don't have to stop the defrag, you can pause it. > c) You don't even have to pause it...you can keep using the > computer while the defrag is running. > and d) Make sure to disable hibernation and thus delete the > hibernation file before doing any defragmenting, or else there's no > point...because your existing hibernation file will NOT be defragmented. > - TK _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
