Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 29th Apr 2006 12:35 UTC
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2005-07-13
God I hate NTFS and its defragging problem. Try a little experiment. Defrag your computer and I mean offline and online defrag. Then reboot, you will see your computer boot fast in less than 20 seconds....well mine does anyway....reboot 3-4 more times and watch your boot times grow longer and longer as the disk gets more fragmented because of all the I/O that is being done. That is the single biggest problem I have....is fragmentation with NTFS.
I'm going totally OT here, but from my past experience with 2K/XP, wiping the swap and then setting it to a fixed size after a defrag helps a lot with this problem. Windows will create the swap in a contiguous space so it doesn't become fragmented, helps with a quicker bootup and slightly better performance overall.
But you're right, defragging ntfs is a PITA.