On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 07:57, Ryan Bowman wrote: > Having made much space on my windows drive and defragged it I tried to use > qtparted to resize the partition. It only allowed me to shave 1GB off the > windows partition and told me to defrag the hard drive. My guess is the > problem is that having once had the drive very full the data on it, while no > longer fragmented, is scattered throughout the drive, rather than all at the > beginnning. So, how can I move the files and such to the beginning of the > partition, so's I can shrink it?
Sometimes you can configure MS's defragger to put all the files at the beginning of the drive. I think by default, "for performance reasons," the defragger puts files at the beginning and end of the disk. Another possibility is that a locked file (such as the swap file) is there. I'm not sure how to do that one, since you can't defrag unless you're in windows, unless you use an external tool. Michael > > Ryan > > -- > 'You must join me, Obi-wan, and together we will destroy the Sith!' > - Count Dooku > > 'And you, younk Skywalker, we will watch your career with great interest.' > - Supreme Chancellor Palpitine > -- > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get MSN 8 Dial-up Internet Service FREE for one month. Limited time offer-- > sign up now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
