Defrag question

Ray K · External Since: Aug 10, 2009 Posts: 5

After defragging the 50GB c: partition (will all applications closed except
W2K's Disk Defragmenter), I looked at the report and saw that a file called
\winnt\system32\config\software.log had 14 fragments. What's odd is that the
file size is 4KB, the minimum allowed with NTFS. (Explorer shows the file
size is only 1KB.)

How can a 4KB file have 14 fragments?

John John - MVP · External Since: Mar 26, 2009 Posts: 10

This should answer your questions:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/228198
Disk Defragmenter Analysis Shows More File Fragments Than File Size Suggests

John

Ray K wrote:
> After defragging the 50GB c: partition (will all applications closed except
> W2K's Disk Defragmenter), I looked at the report and saw that a file called
> \winnt\system32\config\software.log had 14 fragments. What's odd is that the
> file size is 4KB, the minimum allowed with NTFS. (Explorer shows the file
> size is only 1KB.)
>
> How can a 4KB file have 14 fragments?
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Dave Patrick · External Since: Oct 18, 2005 Posts: 3525

You might give this a go.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426.aspx

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"Ray K" wrote:
> After defragging the 50GB c: partition (will all applications closed
> except
> W2K's Disk Defragmenter), I looked at the report and saw that a file
> called
> \winnt\system32\config\software.log had 14 fragments. What's odd is that
> the
> file size is 4KB, the minimum allowed with NTFS. (Explorer shows the file
> size is only 1KB.)
>
> How can a 4KB file have 14 fragments?
>
>
>
>
>