• Does defragmenting free disk space?
    9 replies, posted
This morning (left) now (right) [IMG]http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/mokkan13/desktopled-1.jpg[/IMG] Picture taken from Piriform Defraggler I'm [U]pretty[/U] sure I didn't delete anything, and I certainly didn't uninstall a game or anything, and my external hard drive has the same amount used, so I haven't transferred anything from C:\ to D:\ also;This morning I left my computer on to defrag, turns out power went off ten minutes after I left home. This may or may not be related to thread, probably not, but I don't know.
No. When you start defragmenting, files get copied to the end of the drive so that the program can order the files correctly, increasing the space on the disk that is used temporarily.
Ah yes, that makes sense. Thanks
chances are the program may clear /temp in before it defrags
[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;24677428]chances are the program may clear /temp in before it defrags[/QUOTE] I usually use CCleaner before defragmenting to reduce the defragmeting time.
[QUOTE=sim642;24690232]I usually use CCleaner before defragmenting to reduce the defragmeting time.[/QUOTE] You should definitely do this.
I hadn't defragged in the 4 years I've owned my PC Took over a whole day to finish but I managed to free up 11.5 gigs of space :v:
I thought we just established that defragging doesn't clear space kaze4159....
[QUOTE=kaze4159;24706123]I hadn't defragged in the 4 years I've owned my PC Took over a whole day to finish but I managed to free up 11.5 gigs of space :v:[/QUOTE] I can't be sure, but maybe you can have the same file fragment in to locations taking more space even if only one is used. and then during defrag it's removed. Although i don't really believe it's so. I just could have been defragging tool removing trash etc.
Actually, defragging can free up disk space, but it's so minor that it doesn't really matter. The bigger the block size you have for your disk, the more free space is wasted that can only be recovered through defragging. The smaller your block size, the more your disk will defrag but less space is wasted.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.