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From: "Gary Thornock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: BYU Unix Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BYU Unix Users Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uug] Difficulty resizing NTFS partition Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:57:53 -0600
> From Microsoft Help > " > Disk Defragmenter does not attempt to consolidate all of the free > space on a volume. Although free space fragmented into hundreds of > pieces adversely affects performance, free space split into a few > pieces does not. Having all of the free space consolidated in a > single location provides very little performance benefit. > " > > So how do I consolidate the free space without erasing everything?
You'd have to use a third-party defragmenter like Diskeeper[1], that provides free-space consolidation and boot-time defragmentation of paging files and MFT areas.
The only other way that I know of is to copy all the data off of the drive, reformat (preferably with the partition already resized), and copy the data back.
[1] http://www.diskeeper.com/
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