Jim
Wed Feb 25 09:49:44 CST 2004
As Fred mentioned open files will not defrag. You can only defrag so
much with the built in defrag utility. Third party defrag tools like
Diskkeeper can do boot time defrag which can clean things up some
more. I have plenty of servers out there that seem to do ok with
fragmented hard drives. The basic rule I follow is never let the hard
drive have less than 25% free. I am told that fragmenting issues get
bad when you get somewhere between 20% and less free. To reduce the
risk of running out of free space on the C: drive I move client apps,
company, users shares, Exchange databases and logs off the C: drive.
Then the C: drive stays pretty stable except for service packs, hot
fixes and av updates.
"Tony Girgenti" <antoniongirgenti@comcast.net> wrote:
>Jim and Mark,
>
>I deleted all *.tmp files but did not delete *.log and *.dmp files.
>However, it still left a bunch of fragmented files on the c: drive.
>
>How do i defrag those files ?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>Tony
>
>"Jim Behning" <jimbehningmvp@atl.mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>> I do but others don't. I do a search and delete for old tmp, log, and
>> dmp files before I defrag.
>>
>> "Tony Girgenti" <antoniongirgenti@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> >We use SBS2000 and have 1 drive partitioned with C:(4gig) and E:(28gig).
>> >Should we defrag these drives ? They look pretty bad when we analyze
>them.
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Tony
>> >
>>
>> Jim B. SBS MVP
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>
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