"Dr Zoidberg" <AlexNOOOOO!***@drzoidberg.co.uk> wrote in message
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> One of the servers at work has a 5gb OS partition which has 1.1 GB free
that
> is very heavily fragmented.
> Disk defragmenter shows 22% free space but when you run it you get a
warning
> saying that only 0% is available for use and as a result defragging has no
> effect.
> Any suggestions?
>
> There isn't anything that can easily be removed as this is a live server
and
> I wouldn't want to risk resizing partitions.
>
>
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> Alex
>
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> Free space on NTFS drives is actually located in 2 different
> locations - INSIDE of the MFT Reserved Zone and OUTSIDE of the MFT
> Reserved Zone. Explorer tells you the total from both locations.
> Microsoft's defrag APIs do not let defragmenters use the free space
> INSIDE of the MRZ - which by default is 12.5% of the drive.
>
> What this is telling us is that of the 30% total free space on the
> drive, majority of that free space is located inside of the MRZ and
> us unusable to defragmenters.
>
> - Greg/Raxco Software
> Microsoft MVP - Windows File System
>
> Disclaimer:  I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
> commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support
> department.
>
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