Fragged HD

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:06 pm

Ok, defragging a HD is just everyday stuff. Yet recently my front drives seems to fragment a LOT more, more often than usual. There hasn't been an increased amount of activity.

Could this be memory going back or possibly a HD \"on the brink\"... which reminds me, I need to back stuff up.

Anyone?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:43 pm

No.

Did you recently start downloading bittorrents, or running multiple downloads at the same time? There are a bunch of things you can do that can lead to greater disk fragmentation without you thinking about it.

Memory errors would show up as BSODs or application crashes. Disk errors... well lets just say you wouldn't miss one of those.

Still a perfectly good time to start backing that stuff up though, even if it is running fine, HDDs can still fail out of the blue. On that subject... /me runs every few days or so backup of all the documents and stuff and defrags E:.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:59 pm

nope. I don't use bittorrent and I seldom d/l more than one app at a time. Normally, that's all I d/l is app or demos. Some Podcast stuff, but even that's rare.

I have had a couple apps crash outta the blue this last week. The circumstances are suspicious and the ram is old. .. 4 or 5 years maybe. (2.5 Mushkin 2100)

all the same....

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:45 am

the c drive gets fragmented, there is no avoiding that.

just pure daily use. whats the fragmentation percentage?

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:26 am

60% /PER DAY +/-

It never used to be this much. Ever. MAYBE 20

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:20 am

been doing a lot of web browsing, recieving large emails?

bring up Task Manager, add the I/O Write Bytes column. and see whats up(View->Select Columns).

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:33 pm

Good idea, will do.

The Lion · Post by **The Lion** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:34 pm

Ahhhh, defragging - anothing thing only braindead filesystems such
as FAT and NTFS still need. Hope you're starting to get familiar
with Kubuntu...

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:53 pm

er... \"another thing\" perhaps?

The Lion · Post by **The Lion** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:14 am

Doh, sry :-)

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:29 pm

Having a full or near full partition will increase the rate of fragmentation too.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:38 pm

Jeff250 wrote:Having a full or near full partition will increase the rate of fragmentation too.

it also hampers the capabilty of a defragging software to work efficently

as long as discs spin, you get fragmentation.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:42 pm

naw.. I've barely used a 1/3 of my front drive.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:21 pm

Do you have a fixed page file size, or is it system managed?

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:49 pm

system.

But the thing is, that it's started out of \"no where\" without anything major changing.