How often do you defrag..?

banger9365

never -ssd

esuhl

I tend to defrag NTFS partitions after any major changes to drive contents. None of the ext3 partitions get defragged (fragmentation isn't so much of an issue and I don't even think there is a defragmentation utility that supports ext3). Oh, and a couple of the ext3 partitions are on SSDs, so defragmentation is completely unnecessary

The later Widows OSes (Vista & 7) run defragmentation processes in the background, so I've no idea how often they get defragmented. Every day, maybe? I'm not entirely sure if they only defragment the boot partition or other NTFS partitions too...

davidbeckham

better than defrag,make sure you also run chkdsk command every now and then, it checks the HDD error and fixes them

Mista_C

esuhl wrote: »

I tend to defrag NTFS partitions after any major changes to drive contents. None of the ext3 partitions get defragged (fragmentation isn't so much of an issue and I don't even think there is a defragmentation utility that supports ext3). Oh, and a couple of the ext3 partitions are on SSDs, so defragmentation is completely unnecessary

The later Widows OSes (Vista & 7) run defragmentation processes in the background, so I've no idea how often they get defragmented. Every day, maybe? I'm not entirely sure if they only defragment the boot partition or other NTFS partitions too...

Once a week, every Wednesday at 1am or ASAP if it's unable to run at this time. At least that's what the default OS installed task set my Win7 install at.

robmar0se

I really don't understand those above using windows who say "never". First it would be more helpful to be clear as to which OS they are using, and how they use their system, and what utilities they may be using.

Since the majority of Windows users are still on XP with NTFS, and since the average user doesn't employ utilities to ensure their systems are running most efficiently. Defragging is an option which not only ensures the system runs faster, but also ensures that the hard drive is not having to work harder than necessary (especially on older hdds with a small cache allocation).

An intensive user may wish to defrag quarterly, others using the system for light "domestic" use maybe once a year, but no harm in doing it more often.

One thing not realised by some Windows users, is that the defrag also removes old file names from the system file allocation table.

bengalknights

ferry wrote: »

Seems like ages since I did mine,but us there a suggested timescale for defragging a hard drive?

just curious
F

Never but i have a SSD

DCFC79

I used to do it on a regular basis but seem to have got out of habit and not done it for ages so ill do 1 now.

bluesnake

all my boot and system files are on another partiton, so fragmentation is minimal

S0litaire

*Note* their IS a defrag for Linux...

it's called starting up your machine with a liveCD
attaching an external drive
cut and copy "root" folder (/) to the empty external drive
then:
cut and copy it back to the original drive.

And there you go! one defragged Linux drive! lol ^_^