On 30 Jan 99, at 15:48, Ben Moore wrote:

> You are too impatient.  Win98 defrag looks like it stops at 10% for
> ever, especially the first time you run it.  Open the details option
> if you want to see if it is really doing anything.  Start it late at
> night and just go to bed.

  We had a Win95 machine that was taking a looonnng time to defrag.  I
watched the details, and saw that it was doing an awful lot of
pointless-looking shuffling of good-sized chunks of file.
  Scolling down, I notices that the drive was >95% full.  NO WONDER!
The less free space available for defrag to work with, the more likely
that it will have to shift blocks multiple times, making the process
really slow.
  First question, of course, was why my partner hadn't mentioned that
their drive was getting full -- they're usually pretty good about that.
Second reaction was to see what was taking up space.  Oooh.  Looks like
a crash a couple of months back (okay, so they don't defrag every week)
left a 750MB file in the temp directory.  On a 2GB drive, that's a heck
of a thing to ask defrag to move, especially when it leaves only about
300MB free.
  Deleted that file, and defrag completed in about 20 minutes.


David G

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