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Fragged HD
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:06 pm
by Duper
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?
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:43 pm
by Krom
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:.
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:59 pm
by Duper
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....
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:45 am
by fliptw
the c drive gets fragmented, there is no avoiding that.
just pure daily use. whats the fragmentation percentage?
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:26 am
by Duper
60% /PER DAY +/-
It never used to be this much. Ever. MAYBE 20
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:20 am
by fliptw
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).
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:33 pm
by Duper
Good idea, will do.
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:34 pm
by The Lion
Ahhhh, defragging - anothing thing only braindead filesystems such
as FAT and NTFS still need. Hope you're starting to get familiar
with Kubuntu...
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:53 pm
by Duper
er... \"another thing\" perhaps?
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:14 am
by The Lion
Doh, sry :-)
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:29 pm
by Jeff250
Having a full or near full partition will increase the rate of fragmentation too.
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:38 pm
by fliptw
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.
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:42 pm
by Duper
naw.. I've barely used a 1/3 of my front drive.
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:21 pm
by Krom
Do you have a fixed page file size, or is it system managed?
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:49 pm
by Duper
system.
But the thing is, that it's started out of \"no where\" without anything major changing.